O’er the billow that bounds; and she knows not her brave
Hath struggled with “swipes” and sea sickness and fate,
Till gone with his “grub” is the joy that she gave.
Judy, September 8, 1880.
JOHN DRYDEN’S EPIGRAM ON MILTON
Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn:
The First in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The Next in majesty; in both the Last.