Or canst thou this unmeasured vengeance take,

Remembering some childish duck-and-drake,

Forgotten long, and never done in spite?

How could it harm thy navy-rending might,

Thou, whose huge waves in wanton affluence bang

Their heads against the rocks, in mid-air hang,

Up the sheer cliffs clamber with foamy claws,

And backward plunge again, with mad applause

Of all the turbulent, tumultuous press

That hurl themselves to spray in wantonness?