Interesting observation of details. The "Original" version brings a unique mood to the scene by the golden cliff being immediately under the golden- dark-winged ciborium or sacramental vessel and over the swirling, agitated, shadowy waters : the brooding of higher meditative thought, with feeling for spiritual truth, beyond personal emotional murkiness below. Or the golden, higher mind as a bridge between personal feeling and spiritual vision. The bird suggests free flights of meditative musing on life's mysteries, above the sea, the darkly churning, meandering worries and woes below. A reaching up for illumination beyond confusion. Waite aptly describes this as "loving intelligence". Note that the right hand which holds the sacramental vessel is in a white glove, with the left hand bare. Purity, pure light of the Spirit. (What epiphany hides in that occult container?)