The sufferance only of a breath of air!"

[861] 1836.

—When we had cautiously embarked, the Pair

Now for a prouder service were addrest;

But an inexorable law forbade,

And each resigned the oar which he had seized.

Whereat, with willing hand I undertook

The needful labour; grateful task!—to me

[862] 1836.

... Now the reedy marge