The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-11
We'll skilled the ocean depths to wander

ssh1hc et is lhcEReu ulI1, Tobs dB dtH lu di , And still held on--still onward with it
 flew ! And s:il! tie storm c od from his western
 lair
 Urged on the fierce and angry hurricane. Until the sunset did from heaven wane. And then the clouds began from heaven to
 part,
 And from amid them looked the broad full Yet still the winds came shrieking from
 her heart.
 And moaned that all the clouds had passed
 30 soon,
 And ever and anon the wreathed dart Of lightning, made the sea as bright as ] noon,
 And the waves swelied, and tossed their
 circling foam Toward the wild moon, and spurned their
 ancient home.
 Yet all the night the frail canoe outrode The dying winds and eastward still went
 on,
 And when above the orient barrier, strode in all his summer pride the glorious sum- ! And when be reached again his night
 abode, l And even came starring he. forehead Still 1t was there, that evanescent thing Like weak hope that to the heart will
 cling.
 And all that night he sate and watched the
 stars, rs,=4zz#~# For now the sea unquietly was stiiI Come on the sky in all their orbed cars; He strained his eyes to sec some distant ..,sas. hill
 fsollri. .thhiat ,sassts would Tseepe-~ Among the yere.la, sneu, cloudy bars Streaking the east--and when the sun did
 fill
 His silver lid he turned himself to sleep, And gentle siu.nber did his eyeiids steep. Full soundly slept he; nor did he awake Till noon was glaring broadly in his eyes, He looks around to see if aught may
 break, The bright monotony of sea and skies. And, Scarce distinguished in the cloudy
 fake, speck, mote, a something he descries, He lights again hope's half-extipguished
 spark, And onward paddles his storm-shattered
 bark. Nearer and nearer now that something
 comes-- It IS a ship-to him novel sight, Winging across the azure water glooms Her rushing way-and finging to the light From off her noble bow, the snowy plumes { Of flashing foam--and now in all her
 might, { She booms close by--her sails are thrown she stops like some bold war horse in his
 track, | That stands tossing his mane back on the '
 wind A rope is lowered-the stranger gains the '
 deck, . rottering and weak like one that is half :. Then spurning off the light canoe's frail ,
 wreck, She rushes onward-to the waves inclin- ,
 ed- And little does the stranger know or reck. they bear him, so he go with men, : And be not cast upon the waves again. , But when hath passed the the first all joy
 ous flush, His thoughts go back to his deserted isle; nd gazing at the vessels onward rush, , tie weeps for her, whose simple, loving
 vile Had made him hers-thus fate delights to '
 crush The infant hopes while scarcely taught to l
 smile [ A nd thus he stood leaning against amast, { Objected, mute, despairing aud dow wncast. The captain, a humane and gentle man, Approached and asked him few ques-
 tions, in A friendly tone, which all men under- ..
 stand Is meant for kindness--in attempt to
 wean Him from his wo--the answering words :
 were bland, Bnt indistinct and all unknown their din--- so he left him--glyng orders to : The sailors 10 convey him down below. So, twitching up his waistband sailorwise, And throwing from his mouth monstrous
 quid, Came up Jack Ratline--"come--da damn my
 eyes. Shiver my timbers! come and take id Haul taut and heaye ahead, my jolly prize Blast me! but some day you shall be a ;
 mid Now mind the step-or else you'll be on
 breakers, And here the sharks are ali tie underta-
 lrers And here below. came round the hardy
 crew, Rough as the timbers they defend and
 work, But soft at heart when grief or want they
 view; Some swore he was Jew, and some
 Turk