The servant-lover, the apprentice-friend;

With all the idle social tribes who seek

And find their humble pleasures once a week.

Turn to the watery world! - but who to thee

(A wonder yet unview’d) shall paint - the Sea?

Various and vast, sublime in all its forms,

When lull’d by zephyrs, or when roused by storms,

Its colours changing, when from clouds and sun

Shades after shades upon the surface run;

Embrown’d and horrid now, and now serene,