With shatter’d sails and low-bent mast

Drives before the whirling blast

The fondering vessel---Hark! I hear

110 (Or does the eye deceive the ear?)

The thunder’s voice, the groaning air,

The billows loud roar

While they break on the shore,

The cries of the wreck’d, and their shrieks of despair.

XII.

With pleasure now I turn my sight