"If impious mariners be stain'd with crime,

Shake not in awful rage thy hoary locks;

Lay by thy storms until another time,

Lest my frail bark be dash'd against the rocks:

O rather smooth thy deeps, that he may fly

Like Love himself, upon a seeming sky!"

XXVI.

"Let all thy herded monsters sleep beneath,

Nor gore him with crook'd tusks, or wreathëd horns;

Let no fierce sharks destroy him with their teeth,