Let us give thanks, and begin with joy our new life together!" Down the river! The banks fade into shadow, the breeze sinks away, but still the tide flows free, and the schooner slips along like a spirit.
Now comes up the white fog, the fog out of which she came gliding that first morning; and it receives her as a bride, and folds her in its arms, and she melts into the whiteness and is gone.

Was it all a dream?
Or does there still come back to us, faintly borne, sweetly ringing, the song of the sailors?
[Music] For-ev-er and for-ev-er I--o, For-ev-er and for-ev-er boys, A long time a-go.
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