But why expend one's breath to tell you, change of boat

Means change of tactics too? Come see the same afloat

To-morrow, all the change, new stowage fore and aft

O' the cargo; then, to cross requires new sailor-craft!

To-day, one step from stern to bow keeps boat in trim:

To-morrow, some big stone—or woe to boat and him!—

Must ballast both. That man stands for Mind, paramount

Throughout the adventure: ay, howe'er you make account,

'T is mind that navigates,—skips over, twists between

The bales i' the boat,—now gives importance to the mean,