Now on Atlantic waves he rides afar,

Where Andes, giant of the western star,

With meteor-standard to the winds unfurled,

Looks from his throne of clouds o’er half the world!

Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles,

On Behring’s rocks, or Greenland’s naked isles:

Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow,

From wastes that slumber in eternal snow;

And waft, across the wave’s tumultuous roar,

The wolf’s long howl from Oonalaska’s shore.