“You will not? Listen, then, a word!
And if, when you have fairly heard,
You say a thoughtless oath I swore,
I never fish beside you more!
“You know me, mates,—at least the most,—
From Barnegat, on Jersey coast.
’Tis time you listened something more,
That drove me to another shore.
“Twelve years ago, at noon of life,
I had a fond and faithful wife;