Nor let them rashly for their private ends
Construct interpretations of our speech.
Anonymous.
Tennyson’s “Prefatory Sonnet” in the first number of the “Nineteenth Century” commenced thus:—
Those that of late had fleeted far and fast
To touch all shores, now leaving to the skill
Of others their old craft seaworthy still,
Have chartered this; where, mindful of the past,
Our true co-mates regather round the mast;
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