And like me you’ll totter by;
For, remember, love, that I
Was the Maid of Linden Lane!
ÆGEUS.
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BY WILLIAM H. C. HOSMER.
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Theseus set sail for Athens in the same mournful ship in which he came to Crete, but forgot to change his sails, according to the instructions of his father; so that when his father beheld from a watch-tower the ship returning with black sails, he imagined that his son was dead, and cast himself headlong into the sea, which was afterward called Ægean sea, from his name and destiny.—Andrew Tooke.
“A mast above the waters