CHIMERA II. (Continued.)

The ship! that self-same ship, that Julio knew

Had passed him, with her panic-stricken crew,

She gleams amid the storm, a shatter’d thing

Of pride and lordly beauty; her fair wing

Of sail is wounded—the proud pennon gone!

Dark, dark she sweepeth like an eagle, on

Through waters that are battling to and fro,

And tossing their great giant shrouds of snow

Over her deck.—Ahead, and there is seen