“With long loud laughs, exulting to be free,”
but he retains the laugh, which is the stumbling-block. Swayne has
“Ye ocean waves
That with incessant laughter bound and swell
Countless,”
also a little paraphrased, but giving due prominence to the characteristic idea. E. P. Oxon. has
“Ocean smiling with its countless waves,”
with a reference to Stanley’s note, “Refertur ad levem sonum undarum ventis exagitatarum qui etiam aliquantulum crispant maris dorsum quasi amabili quadam γελασιᾳ,” in which words we see the origin of Pot.’s—
“Ye waves
That o’er the interminable ocean wreathe