To hoard all savings to the uttermost,
To purchase his own boat, and make a home
For Annie: and so prosper’d that at last
A luckier or a bolder fisherman,
A carefuller in peril, did not breathe 50
For leagues along that breaker-beaten coast
Than Enoch. Likewise had he served a year
On board a merchantman, and made himself
Full sailor; and he thrice had pluck’d a life
From the dread sweep of the downstreaming seas: 55