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,