102 AN INCIDENT AT SEA. 



both physic and philosophy would have succeeded, had not the im- 

 petuous and ill-judging old baronet so industriously persisted in 

 running counter to my operations. As the climax of paternal im- 

 policy, he took upon himself to procure the son — a wife !" 

 To be resumed in our next number. 



AN INCIDENT AT SEA. 



A shrill, loud. shriek "My child — my child !'' 



Has rent the restless air ; 

 She sinks, " Oh I God ! " those last words rose 



As in extreme despair. 



" A rope ? " and round his sinewy arm 



A seaman coils the line. 

 " Slack off, my boys.'' One headlong leap — 



And o'er him foams the brine ! 



A death-like hush — an awful pause 



Of silent, anxious pain 

 Hangs o*er the crew, while every eye 



Is gazing on the main. 



One moment passed — the mariner 



Emerges, from the wild 

 And moaning waves, but with him bears 



The mother and her child. 



O, woman's love ! She clasped her babe 



Close to' her breast though all 

 Of life and feeling seemed extinct 



Beneath the dark sea's pall. 



They're saved — ^how every voice exults ; 



How glows each anxious eye ; 

 The joyful words "They're saved ! They're saved ! ' 



Ring back from wave and sky. 



How swelled thine heart, heroic tar ! 



Thy gallant purpose sped : 

 Two victims rescued, at the risk 



Of dying, from the dead. 



Such transport never stirred thy soul 



When crowning victory smiled, 

 As thrills within thee, bending o'er 



The mother and her child. 



