Till, wavering indistinctly, in the gray

Encroaching sea-mists they were hid away.

LXIV.

Beneath his feet, Aquidnay’s north extreme

Displayed a cove, begemmed with islets gay;

Its silvery surface caught the setting beam,

Where’er the op’ning hemlocks gave it way;

Young nature there, tranced in her earliest dream,

Did all her whims in vital forms array;