THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE.=

"Io! Paean! Io! sing,

To the finny people's king,

Not a mightier whale than this,

In the vast Atlantic is;

Not a fatter fish than he

Flounders round the Polar sea:

See his blubber at his gills,—

What a world of drink he swills!—

Such a person,—next declare,