To lie amid some sylvan scene,

Where, the long drooping boughs between,

Shadows dark and sunlight sheen

Alternate come and go.

Longfellow.

41. Gentleman.—To beat the surges under you,

And ride upon their backs; to tread the water

Whose enmity you flung aside, and breast

The surge most swollen, that meets you; your bold head

'Bove the contentious waves keeping, and oar