Making the flood clap hands in acclamation;

And so with all their streamers, as ’twere spring

Floating away to other hemispheres,

Put out to sea; and touching not the isles

That gem the midway deep—not from distrust

Of friendly France in whose crown they are set,

And who (as mighty states contend in peace

With courtesies as with hard blows in war)

Swell’d the triumphal tide with pageantries

I may not stop to tell—but borne upon,