. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ,Everything wrong enough,Long-boaV not long enoughVessel not strong enough; 136 SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. Pitch mnrring frippery,The deck very ,And the cabin—built sloping,The Captain the Mate a blasphemer,That names his Redeemer,—<With inward uneasiness ;The coo!: known by greasiness,The victuals beslubberd,Her bed—in a cupboard ;Things of strangf christening,Snatchd in her listening,Bkie lights and red lightsAnd mention of dead-lights,And shrouds made a theme of—Things horrid to dream of,—And buoys in the waterTo
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ,Everything wrong enough,Long-boaV not long enoughVessel not strong enough; 136 SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. Pitch mnrring frippery,The deck very ,And the cabin—built sloping,The Captain the Mate a blasphemer,That names his Redeemer,—<With inward uneasiness ;The coo!: known by greasiness,The victuals beslubberd,Her bed—in a cupboard ;Things of strangf christening,Snatchd in her listening,Bkie lights and red lightsAnd mention of dead-lights,And shrouds made a theme of—Things horrid to dream of,—And buoys in the waterTo fear all exhort her ;. Cume oer tlie sea. Her friend no Leander,Herself no sea-gandt-r,And neer a cork jacketOn board of the packet;The breeze still ;i stiffening,The trumpet quite deatVnmg;Thoughts of doomsday and sentence ;Eveiything sijiister,Not a church minister,—Pilot a blunderer,Coral reefs under her,Ready to sunder her ;Trunks ship m a dropsy ; FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP. I37 Waves oversurging a-dirj^eing her ;Sharks all expecting her,Sord-fish dissecting her,Crabs with their hand-vicesPunishing land vices ;Sea-dogs and unicorns,Things with no puny horns,Mermen carnivorous—Good Lord deliver us ! The rest of the vogage was occupied,—excepting one bright interval,—with the sea-malady and sea-horrors. We were off FlamboroughHead. A heavy swell, the consequence of some recent storm to theeastward, was rolling right before the wind upon the land :—and onceunder the shadow of the bluff promontory, we should lose all theadvantage of a saving westerly breeze. Ev
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