“Lawless! The man is going mad!
The best boy mother ever had:—
Be sure he sailed with the crew!
What would you have him do?”
“And he has never written line,
Nor sent you word, nor made you sign,
To say he was alive?”
“Hold! if ’twas wrong, the wrong is mine;
Besides, he may be in the brine;
And could he write from the grave?