Here closed the long debate, and, from the ground,

Rose the thronged warriors, and hoarse murmurs past

Through all that concourse, like the hollow sound

Of Narraganset’s waters, when the blast

Begins to roll the tumbling billows round

The rock-bound cape, which had so lately glassed

Its imaged self—its pendant crags and wood—

In the calm bosom of the silent flood.

CANTO FIFTH.