DOROTHY’S DREAM.

 THIS is the queer little fairy dream

That came to Dorothy Brown:

“I was lost,” she said, “in the deep blue sea,

A thousand fathoms¹ down;

There were branching corals and waving trees,

And water-maids, good and fair,

Who fed the fishes from pearly dishes,

And gave to the least a share.

There were schools of fishes, but never a book;

There was sunlight without a sun;

There were ways to roam, but not any home,

And mothers—there were none!”

1 fathoms   

英寻( fathom的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The harbour is four fathoms deep. 港深为四英寻。
• One bait was down forty fathoms. 有个鱼饵下沉到四十英寻的深处。