THE VOYAGE OF ALFRED.
[See Mr. Alfred Austin's article, entitled "That Damnable Country," in Blackwood's Magazine.]
"Land, land!" cried Alfred Austin. "By my halidom, I spy land!
Many weary leagues we've wandered since we left our native shores,
Seeking still through calm and tempest a remote and barren island,
While we smote the sounding furrows of the ocean with our oars.
"Never wind availed to beat us; by the waters overweighted,
Or becalmed, with idle canvas hanging loosely from the mast,
Yet we steered her or we rowed her with our courage unabated,