Should study all their traps and nets,

I may conceive it;

But that the mirror, above all,

Should be the object principal,

I won’t believe it.”


THE SLAVE SHIP, A GALLEY YARN.

Come all you gallant sailors bold, that to the seas belong,

Oh listen unto me, my boys, while I recount my song;

’Tis concerning of an action that was fought the other day,