Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath
An embassy. Their numbers as he watched,
Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured.
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is Melville ''beneath the waves''? He died and was buried on land.. but Crane is speaking of his spirit.. and ''of drowned men's bones''
A fairly obscure poem, but it captures the spirit of Herman Melville very skillfully. I feel as if I were there at the graveyard.