Charles Kingsley （b.1819，d.1875） was born at Holne，Devonshire，England. He took his bachelor’s degree at Cambridge in 1842，and soon after entered the Church. His writings are quite voluminous，including sermons，lectures，novels，fairy tales，and poems，published in book form，besides numerous miscellaneous sermons and magazine articles. He was an earnest worker for bettering the condition of the working classes，and this object was the basis of most of his writings. As a lyric poet he has gained a high place. The "Saint‘s Tragedy" and "Andromeda" are the most pretentious of his poems，and "Alton Locke" and "Hypatia" are his best known novels.
1."Mary，gand call the cattle home，And call the cattle home，And call the cattle home，Across the sands o’ Dee！" 1The western wind was wild and dank with foam，And all alone went she.
2.The creeping tide came up along the sand，And o‘er and o’er the sand，And round and round the sand，As far as eye could see；The blinding mist came down and hid the land- And never home came she.1The Sands OˊDee. The Dee is a river of Scotland，noted for its salmon fisheries. O’ is a contraction for of，commonly used by the Scotch.
3.Oh，is it weed，or fish，or floating hair？- A tress oˊgolden hair，O’ drowned maiden‘s hair，Above the nets at sea.Was never salmon yet that shone sfair Among the stakes on Dee.
4.They rowed her in across the rolling foam，The cruel，crawling foam，The cruel，hungry foam，Ther grave beside the sea；But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home，Across the sands O’ Dee.