There is also a serious imitation of Cowper’s “Alexander Selkirk;” it is entitled:

Lines

Supposed to have been written by Robinson Crusoe
on the acquisition of Friday.

I have stood on the brink of the grave:

Savage feet have imprinted the sand;

But an arm that was mighty to save,

Has saved in this terrible land.

*  *  *  *  *

——:o:——

Ralph Rattat.