To their haven under the hill;

But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

COLUMBUS—WESTWARD.[18]

Behind him lay the gray Azores,