————Descent and fall
To us is adverse. Who but felt of late,
When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear
Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep,
With what confusion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low! Th' ascent is easy then.
In another place, he describes the gentle glide of ebbing waters in a line remarkably rough and halting;
————Tripping ebb; that stole
With soft foot tow'rds the deep who now had stopp'd
His sluices.