As it would seem my pleasant toil to share,

But straightway take their loads to distant marts,

For only weeds and ballast are their care.


'Tis by some strange coincidence, if I

Make common cause with ocean when he storms,

Who can so well support a separate sky,

And people it with multitude of forms.

Oft in the stillness of the night I hear

Some restless bird presage the coming din,