The road Is straight before theereach the Seven Mountains, And there thou wilt discern the various groups, Which guard the awful passage.

Too late they their folly discern; The effect to this day does appear: For whenever a Pye's nest you see, Her charming warm canopy view, All birds' nests but hers seem to be A Magpye's nest just cut in two.

So it happened that at the end of the fourth day out, we had made only nineteen miles, and could still from a hummock discern afar the leaning masts of the old Boreal.