Who from the reigning cause foretels th’ effect,
This barbarous practice ever will reject:
For, fluttering loose in air, the rigid sail
Soon flits to ruins in the furious gale;
And he, who strives the tempest to disarm,
Will never first embrail the lee yard-arm.’
So Albert spoke; to windward, at his call,
Some seamen the clue-garnet stand to haul—
The tack’s eased off, while the involving clue
Between the pendent blocks ascending flew;