THE
NAUTILUS and the AMMONITE.
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FROM SKETCHES IN PROSE AND VERSE,
By the late G. F. Richardson, Esq.
The Nautilus and the Ammonite
Were launch'd in storm and strife;
Each sent to float, in its tiny boat,
On the wide, wild sea of life.
And each could swim on the ocean's brim,
And anon, its sails could furl;
And sink to sleep in the great sea deep,
In a palace all of pearl.
And their's was a bliss, more fair than this,
That we feel in our colder time;
For they were rife in a tropic life,
In a brighter, happier clime.