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"`The wind it whistled, the porpoise roll'd, The dolphins rear'd their backs of gold; And never was heard such an outcry wild As welcomed to life the ocean-child. "I believe you, my hearties, that was a gale! I don't believe the sea ever ran so high before, or has ever run so high since.
"'The balls of his broad eyes roll'd in his head, And glar'd betwixt a yellow and a red; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. "Well remembered, and better applied eh, Mr. Pelham!" "Really," said I, "I am not able to judge of the application, since I have not seen the hero."
What was there in the words which Charles had spoken that carried the mind of the young man back to former times to a period when he was more pure and innocent than now? "My mother has often pray'd me not to drink!" Ah, how the mist of months roll'd aside, and presented to his soul's eye the picture of his mother, and a prayer of exactly similar purport!
I reared him from a babe * On cot of coaxing roll'd; And now I mourn for him * With woe in soul ensoul'd." Then, turning to the Wazir who had brought the presents and the missive, he said, "Go back to thy liege and acquaint him that Uns al-Wujud hath been missing this year past, and his lord knoweth not whither he is gone nor hath any tidings of him."
The boatman feels his bosom With a nameless longing move; He sees not the gulfs before him, His gaze is fixed above. Till over boat and boatman The Rhine's deep waters run; And this with her magic singing The Lorelei hath done! So all day long the noise of battle roll'd Among the mountains by the winter sea.
If you find that your Composition is not thick enough, you may grate in more Naples Biscuit. Mix all this well together, and, if you will, make a fine Crust roll'd thin and laid in a Dish, and bake it in a gentle Oven. Parsnip-Cakes. From the same.
As I write, the whole experience comes back to me after the lapse of forty and more years the soothing rustle of the waves, and the saline smell boyhood's times, the clam-digging, bare-foot, and with trowsers roll'd up hauling down the creek the perfume of the sedge-meadows the hay-boat, and the chowder and fishing excursions; or, of later years, little voyages down and out New York bay, in the pilot boats.
You kindly interest yourself in my future views and prospects; there I can give you no light. It is all Dark as was Chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound. The appellation of a Scottish bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
Ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos " Or, in the english habit which Dryden has given them, "And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpen'd fangs, their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid, With pious haste, but vain, they next invade: Twice round his waist the winding volumes roll'd, And twice about his gasping throat they fold.
The Passing of Arthur, except for a new introductory passage of great beauty and appropriateness, is the Morte d'Arthur, first published in 1842: "So all day long the noise of battle roll'd Among the mountains by the winter sea." The year has run its course, spring, summer, gloomy autumn, and dies in the mist of Arthur's last wintry battle in the west
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