154 NIMROD OF THE SEA; OR, 



in so alarming and wounding their enemy that it sank into 

 the sea. The grateful crew, in commemoration of their mi- 

 raculous deliverance from this hideous danger, marched in 

 procession to the Chapel of St. Thomas, where they offered 

 solemn thanksgiving, and had a painting made representing 

 the conflict with the cuttle. This painting hung in the 

 chapel when Montfort saw it." 



Now the bard and nightingale of the ship sang : 



" His head he seeks 'mid coral rocks to hide, 

 Nor e'er hath man his eye espied ; 

 Nor could its deadly glare abide. 



" Mussels and crabs, and all the shelly race, 

 In spacious banks still crowd for place, 

 A gristly beard around his face. 



" When Medgard's worm his fetters strives to break, 

 Riseth the sea, the mountains quake ; 

 The fiends in Nastroma merry make." 



