. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. hould lose all theadvantage of a saving Westerly breeze. Even the seamenlooked anxious: but the passengers (save one) were indespair. They were, already, bones of contention, in theirown misgivings, to the myriads of cormorants and water-fowl inhabiting that stupendous cliff. Miss Oliver alone She is far from the land. 97 was sanguine:—she was all nods, and becks, and wreathedsmiles;—her eheeriness increased in proportion with ourdreariness. Even the dismal pitching of the vessel couldnot disturb her unseasonable levity;—it was like a lighten-ing befo
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. hould lose all theadvantage of a saving Westerly breeze. Even the seamenlooked anxious: but the passengers (save one) were indespair. They were, already, bones of contention, in theirown misgivings, to the myriads of cormorants and water-fowl inhabiting that stupendous cliff. Miss Oliver alone She is far from the land. 97 was sanguine:—she was all nods, and becks, and wreathedsmiles;—her eheeriness increased in proportion with ourdreariness. Even the dismal pitching of the vessel couldnot disturb her unseasonable levity;—it was like a lighten-ing before death—but, at length, the mystery was ex-plained. She had springs of comfort that we knew not brandy,—for that we shared in common;—nor sup-plications,—for those we had all applied to;—but her ears,being jealously vigilant of whatever passed between themariners, she had overheard from the captain,—and ithad all the sound, to her, of a comfortable promise,—that if the wind held, we should certainly go on shore. COME O ER THE SEA. 98 FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP. I love to pore upon old china—and to speculate, fromthe images, on Cathay. I can fancy that the Chinesemanners betray themselves, like the drunkards, in theircups.— How quaintly pranked and patterned is their vessel!—exquisitely outlandish, yet not barbarian.—How daintilytransparent!—It should be no vulgar earth, that producesthat superlative ware, nor does it so seem in the enamelldlandscape. There are beautiful birds ; there—rich flowers and gor-geous butterflies, and a delicate clime, if we may creditthe porcelain. There be also horrible monsters, dragons,with us obsolete, and reckoned fabulous; the main breed,doubtless, having followed Fohi (our Noah), in his wan-derings thither from the Mount Ararat.—But how doesthat impeach the loveliness of Cathay ?—There are suchcreatures even in Fairy-land. FANCIES ON A TEA-CUP. VV I long often to loiter in those romantic Paradises —studde
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