bridge-islet

The Sailor's Word-Book

A portion of land which becomes insular at high-water as Old Woman's Isle at Bombay, and among others, the celebrated Lindisfarne, thus tidally sung by Scott:


"The tide did now his flood-mark gain,

And girdled in the saint's domain:

For, with the flow and ebb, its style

Varies from continent to isle;

Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice ev'ry day

The pilgrims to the shrine find way;

Twice every day the waves efface

Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace."

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