About the space in the celestial vast,
Where the great Trav’ler takes his eve’s repast,—
That famed dispenser of eternal light,
Who bathes his rosy form in depths of night,
And bids the world behold him gently steep
His swollen body in the radiant deep;—
There, like a whale beneath the liquid main,
Retires in confidence; and comes again
Refresh’d, and strengthen’d, for returning day:
But he, unlike the monsters of the sea,