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The pretty lawn on which it stands , as green as sun and rain could make it ; the pine wood on the south ; the small river on the north side ; the houses , with their white plastered sides and red-tiled roofs , dotted about on the green ; the low , white presidio , with its soiled , flying , and the discordant din of drums and trumpets for the noon parade ; all brought up the scene we had witnessed here with so much pleasure nearly a year before , when coming from a long voyage , and our unprepossessing reception at Santa Barbara . It was dated August , just a year from the time I had sailed from home ; and every one was well , and no great change had taken place . Before stowing the hides , as I have said , the ballast is levelled off , just above the keelson , and then loose dunnage placed upon it , on which the hides rest . Light and dry , feeling unsatisfied , and , at the same time , full , we were glad to see four quarters of a bullock , just killed , swinging from the fore-top . For individuals with some visual impairments , the ability to adjust the color of the monitor or change the foreground and background colors is also of value . To make our condition still worse , the wind came out due east , just after sundown , and it blew a gale dead ahead , with hail and sleet , and a thick fog , so that we could not see half the length of the ship . if we approach ( an artist ) without this prejudice ( only looking at aspects that least resembles anyone else ) , we shall often find that not only the best , but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets , his ancestors , assert their immortality most vigorously . Black mud is the soundings of Block Island . Notice how the lyrics often consist of iambs , just as Shakespeare wrote in iambs in his sonnet .