About twelve o'clock
`` Each on his own strict line we move And some find death ere they find love , So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own . '' `` Oh , nearest , farthest ! Can there be At length some hard-earned heart-won home , Where -- exile changed for Sanctuary -- Our lot may fill indeed its sum , And you may wait and I may come ? '' About twelve o'clock the wind rose , there was a rattling breeze and a tossing sea all night ; and David did not return until the early morning tide . Allan was roused from sleep by young Johnson singing , `` We cast our line in Largo Bay . '' and soon after he heard David greet Maggie in an unusually cheerful manner . He was impatient to tell him the good news , and he dressed hurriedly , and went into the house place .