By former voyages, stood to watch the skiffs

Which passed, or catch the first glimpse of the cliffs.

LXV.

At length they rose, like a white wall along

The blue sea's border; and Don Juan felt—

What even young strangers feel a little strong

At the first sight of Albion's chalky belt—

A kind of pride that he should be among

Those haughty shopkeepers, who sternly dealt

Their goods and edicts out from pole to pole,