See also the essay called "Remarks on English Hexameters," in the _Horæ Hellenicæ_ of Professor John Stuart Blackie. Hovering over the water he came, upon glittering pinions, Living, a wonder, outgrown from the tight-laced fold of his sandals; Bounding from billow to billow, and sweeping the crests like a sea-gull; Leaping the gulfs of the surge, as he laughed in the joy of his leaping. Fair and majestic he sprang to the rock; and the maiden in wonder Gazed for a while, and then hid in the dark-rolling wave of her tresses, Fearful, the light of her eyes; while the boy (for her sorrow had awed him) Blushed at her blushes, and vanished, like mist on the cliffs at the sunrise. Fearful at length she looked forth: he was gone: she, wild with amazement, Wailed for her mother aloud: but the wail of the wind only answered. (CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Andromeda_. 1858.) Kingsley believed in the possibility of representing the quantitative verse of classical poetry in English, and at the same time holding to genuinely English rhythm.[46] Thus he tried to introduce more real spondees into his hexameters than Longfellow and others had done. Compare such a line as Longfellow's-- "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice"-- with Kingsley's-- "Then as a pine upon Ida when south-west winds blow landward." In the former the dissyllabic feet are in no sense spondees; in the latter there is an effort to fill them with genuinely long syllables. Lover whose vehement kisses on lips irresponsive are squandered, Lover that wooest in vain Earth's imperturbable heart; Athlete mightily frustrate, who pittest thy thews against legions, Locked with fantastical hosts, bodiless arms of the sky; Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken, Like unto thine, from of old, springeth the spirit of man,-- Nature's wooer and fighter, whose years are a suit and a wrestling, All their hours, from his birth, hot with desire and with fray. (WILLIAM WATSON: _Hymn to the Sea_, ii.) Here the alternate lines represent the "pentameter" of the Latin elegiac verse, where the light syllables were omitted at the cesura and the end of the line. When they came to the fair-flowing river and to the places Where stood pools in plenty prepared, and water abundant Gushed up, a cure for things manifold uncleanly, the mules were Unyoked from the waggons, driven off to the bindweed pastures By the rushing swirling river, and the women set about it Unloading the waggons, carrying clothes down to the water, One with other striving, stepping hastily into the wash-troughs. When washing and rinsing were done, they brought the linen down On to the sea-shore, and set it all out thereupon in rows Where the pebbles thrown up by the waves most thickly abounded.