As it is expected that the jogging and jerking, or the sudden passing through tunnels, may in some degree interfere with the perusal of this poem, we give it with the abbreviations, as it is likely to be read with the drawbacks alluded to.
Wherever there is a dash—it is supposed there will be a jolt of the vehicle.
CORSAIR-POEM.
—sky—dark—sea—rough;
—Corsair—brave—tough;
—wind—high—waves steep;
—moon—veil’d—oce—deep;
—foam—gainst—vess—dash’d;
—Corsair—board—wash’d.
—rope—vain—to save,