By Y

[Published in The Knickerbocker, November, 1850 (36:5)]

[Edited and Annotated by Morgan Panknin for the University of Arizona Antebellum Magazine Edition Project, April 13, 2015]

[Editor's Note]

Where from columnar cliffs the clamoring sea-gulls

Dive to the ocean’s ever tumbling foam;

Where above golden vapors golden eagles