_Water-fowl_.

[Sonnet III.l.

1.] 'Screams round the Arch-druid's brow the sea-mew.' This water-fowl was among the Druids an emblem of those traditions connected with the deluge that made an important part of their mysteries.

The cormorant was a bird of bad omen.
336.

_Hill at St.Allan's: Bede_.
'That hill, whose flowery platform,' &c.