ÆSCHYLUS.

A sea-cliff carved into a bas-relief!

Art, rough from Nature’s hand; by brooding Nature

Wrought out in spasms to shapes of Titan stature;

Emblems of Fate, and Change, Revenge, and Grief,

And Death, and Life; in giant hieroglyph

Confronting still with thunder-blasted frieze

All stress of years, and winds, and wasting seas—

The stranger nears it in his western skiff,