With a dry burning smile up zenith-ward,

Into the broad blue quiet of the sky:

Quiet the sea-kissed shore—noiseless the hills—

All soothed the Titan pulses of the deep—

And the huge-breathing winds were caverned all,

Moveless, and murmurless, as somewhere near

Some god were chambered, pillowed in sweet rest.

A bark was on the deep; and some few men,

Plain-garbed, and bronzed by life-expending toil,

Looked steadily down into the unwinking main,