272 LARID.E. 



pear on the advent of a storm, small wonder that all have 

 conspired in placing the stormy petrel in the unconscious po- 

 sition it holds : 



" O'er the deep ! o'er the deep, 



Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword-fish sleep, 

 Outflying the blast and the driving rain, 

 The petrel telleth her tale in vain. 

 For the mariner curseth the warning bird 

 Who bringeth him news of storms unheard. 

 Oh ! thus does the prophet of good or ill 

 Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still ; 

 Yet he ne'er falters. So, petrel, spring 

 Once more o'er the waves on thy stormy wing. 



Indigenous. 



