CXVIII.

The screaming fowl resigns her finny prey,

And labors shoreward with a bending wing,

Rowing against the wind her toilsome way;

Meanwhile, the curling billows chafe, and fling

Their dewy frost still further on the stones,

That answer to the wind with hollow groans.

CXIX.

And here and there a fisher's far-off bark

Flies with the sun's last glimpse upon its sail,