Whispering wave and throbbing billow
Gently rock themselves to sleep;
Mellow moonlight floods the heavens,
Silver sheen illumes the deep.

Ripples break in softest whispers
Round the shallop's swarthy side;
Every star in yonder welkin
Trembles on the trembling tide.

Far away the listless topsail
Dances on the silent sea;
Here upon the quivering margin
Shadowy shapes of you and me.

Floating shadows, almost blended,
Phantom forms that flit and flee,
Would you dream those were our shadows
Gliding o'er the glimmering sea?

Blissful blending! wave and moonlight,
Radiant sky and boundless sea;
Why should we obtrude two shadows?
One will do for you and me.

So the shadows drew together,
Mixed and melted into one;
Just as if the silly shadows
Didn't know 'twas said in fun.