Diffusing briny vapours o’er the skies.
This vast phenomenon, whose lofty head,
In Heaven immersed, embracing clouds o’erspread,
In spiral motion first, as seamen deem,
Swells, when the raging whirlwind sweeps the stream.
The swift volution, and th’ enormous train,
Let sages versed in Nature’s lore explain.
The horrid apparition still draws nigh,
And white with foam the whirling billows fly.
The guns were primed; the vessel northward veers,