The Sea-King :: :: University of Virginia Library

And two alone in that large company
Marked the maiden's strange emotion.—
Have you ne'er seen upon the stormy sea,
How, when the waves and waters of the ocean
Are dancing and prancing in endless commotion,
A vessel answereth every changeful motion?
And when the waves each other crossing
Leap and fall in tumult tossing
Dancing to the dazzled view,
The bark,—whene'er the waters upward bending
Are flashing, splashing, and descending
Riseth still, and falleth too.—
As though it had no motion of its own,
But was ordained to undulation still,

And bow obsequious to the tyrant will
Of the wild waves alone.