And hollow murmurs filled the breeze.

The white gull screaming, left the rock,

And seaward bent its glancing wing,

While heavy waves, with measured shock,

Made the dun cliff with echoes ring.

How changed the scene! The glassy deep

That slumbered in its resting-place,

And seeming in its morning sleep

To woo me to its soft embrace,

Now wakened, was a fearful thing,—