That coils up a tree from a dusky brake;

It hath touch’d the sails, and their canvass rolls

Away from its breath into shrivell’d scrolls;

It hath taken the flag’s high place in the air,

And redden’d the stars with its wavy glare;

And sent out bright arrows, and soar’d in glee,

To a burning mount midst the moonlight sea.

The swimmers are plunging from stern and prow—

Eudora! Eudora! where, where art thou?

The slave and his master alike are gone.—