With deeper sable blots the silver flood.

'Here strip, my children! here at once leap in,

Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin.'"[76]

Ward bursts into song over Bridewell, thus:—

"'Twas once the Palace of a Prince,

If we may Books Confide in;

But given was, by him long since,

For Vagrants to Reside in."