The Liverpool Mercury.

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Tennyson Tackled.

I.
The Flight!
Companion Poem to “The Fleet.” A Rejoinder.

You—you—if you have failed to understand

How ships are built on paper at Whitehall,

Have picked up from the Pall Mall, second-hand,

Facts which but after all

Make circulation great.

Your Isle—where you possess the snuggest berth,