In this representation of the sea-shore—
Concharumque genus parili ratione videmus
Pingere telluris gremium, qua mollibus undis
Litoris incurvi bibulam pavit aequor harenam[39],—
there is the same suggestion of quiet ceaseless movement, as in a line of the Odyssey representing the same phase of Nature—
λαΐγγας πότι χέρσον ἀποπλύνεσπε θάλασσα.
There is the same sense of active life in all his pictures of the early morning; as, for instance,—
Primum aurora novo cum spargit lumine terras
Et variae volucres nemora avia pervolitantes