The breathing porpus cleaves his pond'rous way,

The flouncing skipjacks bound in liquid play;

Bonitoes court the spray on either side,

And Albicores in shining mazes glide:

While huge Leviathan, in monarch mood,

Spooms, like an island, thro' the subject flood.

At length assisted by the boreal breeze,

And southward urg'd by swift-pursuing seas,

Close in our liquid path blue mountains rise,

Lifting their misty summits to the skies;