And the schooner was laid to and anxiously observed till daylight.
There was little or no morning bank.

A brightening came in the east; then a wash of some ineffable, faint, nameless hue between crimson and silver; and then coals of fire.

These glimmered a while on the sea line, and seemed to brighten and darken and spread out, and still the night and the stars reigned undisturbed; it was as though a spark should catch and glow and creep along the foot of some heavy and almost incombustible wall-hanging, and the room itself be scarce menaced.

Yet a little after, and the whole east glowed with gold and scarlet, and the hollow of heaven was filled with the daylight.
The isle--the undiscovered, the scarce believed-in--now lay before them and close aboard; and Herrick thought that never in his dreams had he beheld anything more strange and delicate.

The beach was excellently white, the continuous barrier of trees inimitably green; the land perhaps ten feet high, the trees thirty more.