“Rising and leaping, sinking and creeping,
Striking and raging, as if a war waging,
All around and around, with endless rebound,
Confounding, astounding,
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound!
“Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling and boiling,
And dashing, and flashing, and splashing and crashing,
All at once, and all o’er, with a mighty uproar;
And THIS way the water comes down at Lodore!”
A disappointed, “disillusioned,” tourist expresses below his view of the subject, which slightly differs from Southey’s.