He goes, like the "boisterous sea" (vide HADYN!)

"Upheaved from the deep," swift, tremendous,

Leviathan sports on the far-foaming wave.

If he runs athwart us, what power shall save,

From the doom to which promptly he'd send us?

His "soundings," or "diggings," are many and deep;

But would that his "three-hundred fathoms" he'd keep,

Below in the ocean's cold quiet.

But no, not at all; he's not that sort of whale!

He must breathe, he must blow, he must roar, till the gale