From The Humorous Works of the late gifted Hopkins. London: James Blackwood & Co. An anonymous and undated book, with Eight Illustrations by Phiz. It also contains a few parodies of Longfellow, and E. A. Poe.
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A WET SHEET.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast,
And fills the white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While, like an eagle free,
Away the good ship flies, and leaves