“Following still
Each impulse of my guiding will.”
But for the poetical propriety of my translation I can plead the authority of Southey—
“The ship of Heaven instinct with thought displayed
Its living sail, and glides along the sky.”
Curse of Kehama, VII. 1.
and of Milton—
“The chariot of paternal Deity
Instinct with spirit.”—VI. 750.
and what is much more conclusive in the present instance, that of Homer, whose τιτυσκόμεναι φρεσὶ νῆες (Odyssey VIII. 556), or self-piloted ships of the Phœnicians, belong clearly to the same mythical family as the self-reined griffin of old Ocean.