His Chief had cherished only to destroy,

And, pointing to the helpless prow beneath,

Exclaimed, "Depart at once! delay is death!"

Yet then, even then, his feelings ceased not all:

In that last moment could a word recall

Remorse for the black deed as yet half done,

And what he hid from many showed to one:

When Bligh in stern reproach demanded where

Was now his grateful sense of former care?160

Where all his hopes to see his name aspire,