44/44 And when you grow up, go out on every sea and find him, Noni. And when you find him--hang your father high on a mast, my little one." The thundering salute drowns her cry. The night grows darker and the dashing of the waves fainter--the ocean is moving away with the tide. The great desert of the sky is mute and the night grows darker and the dashing of the waves ever fainter. |