Soon the ship away was steering, and the whaler’s crew were cheering
Loudly the brave British vessel that had help’d them when afloat;
On the poop two eyes were beaming, green eyes through the darkness gleaming,
And a tail outstretch’d, outstreaming, as it stream’d when in the boat,
When the captain bade farewell, and sadly left us in the boat,
Fear in eye and husky throat.
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Several verses of this very long parody have been omitted; it is contained in The Mocking-Bird and other Poems, by Frederick Field (J. Van Voorst) London, 1868.
The Croaker.