The ships unmoved the boisterous winds defy,

While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly.

The vast leviathan wants room to play,

And spout his waters in the face of day.

The starving wolves along the main sea prowl,

And to the moon in icy valleys howl.

For many a shining league the level main

Here spreads itself into a glassy plain:

There solid billows of enormous size,

Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.