Sixth Stanza: Last line, “slithered”—a difficult word, and yet effective! The whole line is masterly.
Seventh Stanza: The last line is clearly a Shelleyan reminiscence, a trace of my readings aloud of that poet. And yet, if Susannah had plagiarised, it was at least, boldly, frankly.
Eighth and Last Stanza: Note the contrast between the defiant and denunciatory address to the “whales and sharks,” and the pleading gentleness of that petition to the “little fish,” that they receive with comfort and affection those sad and houseless visitants, who had perished not ignobly, not unworthily.
A poem composed by Sadler on the foregoing events:
“The climates got out on a spree,
A heaven-and-hell carouse,
And Satan built along the sea
The pillars of his house;
And 'mong them all they drowned one hen,
One played-out, seedy cat,