And on the river, where they smoothly sail’d,
He strove with terror and awhile prevail’d;
But new to danger on the angry sea,
He clung affrighten’d to his master’s knee:
The boat grew leaky and the wind was strong,
Rough was the passage and the time was long;
His liquor fail’d, and Peter’s wrath arose, -
No more is known - the rest we must suppose,
Or learn of Peter: - Peter says, he “spied
The stripling’s danger and for harbour tried;