Of spirits restless, borne from place to place;

Rivers of blood from conquer’d armies ran;

The flying steed was by, the marble man;

Then danced the fairies round their pygmy queen,

And their feet twinkled on the dewy green,

All in the moon-beams’ glory. As they fled,

The mountain loadstone rear’d its fatal head, 680

And drew the iron-bolted ships on shore, }

Where he distinctly heard the billows roar, }

Mix’d with a living voice of—“Youngster, sleep no more, }