And lashed, with webbed fin, the main.
“Dwell here, alone!” the Mermaid cried,
“And view far off the Sea-nymphs play;
Thy prison-wall, the azure tide,
Shall bar thy steps from Colonsay.
“Whene’er, like Ocean’s scaly brood,
I cleave, with rapid fin, the wave,
Far from the daughter of the flood,
Conceal thee in this coral cave.
“I feel my former soul return;