Note 5 — Chapter II
Reading edition
"'Tis said that when upon a rocky shore The salt sea billows break with muffled roar, And, launched in mad career, the thundering wave Leaps booming through the weedy ocean cave; Each tenth is grander than the nine before. And breaks with tenfold thunder on the shore. Alas! it is so on the sounding sea; But so, O England, it is not with thee! Thy decuman is broken on the shore: A peer to him shall lave thee never more!"
The text of the whole poem is given in Appendix I.