And sanguine streamers, seem the flood to fire;

The weaver, charmed with what his loom designed,

Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire.

153.

With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength,

Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves;

Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length,

She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.

154.

This martial present, piously designed,