A wonderous deed to undertake.
Lift up thy head that he may stay
And rest him on his weary way.”
He heard, and from his watery shroud,
As bursts the sun from autumn cloud,
Rose swifty, crowned with plant and tree,
And stood above the foamy sea.[790]
There with his lofty peaks upraised
Bright as a hundred suns he blazed,
And crest and crag of burnished gold