...Gainstield lay down upon the deck in thorough despair. Cecilia had only Luke Jones to comfort her. " And ever the fitful Gusts between A sound came from...was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand : The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping...

...prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stdll'd the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was...

...pray'd That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who still'd the wave On the lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It...

...That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave. On the Lake- of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping...

...in its strength ; She shuddered and pawed, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe." It would merely be doing justice to our author, to quote more extensively from his ballad poetry, but...

...LONGFELLOW well understands the force of our simple vernacular expressions. Observe the following : 1 And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from...was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard soa-sand.' ' She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft an carded wool ; But...

...in its strength ; She shuddered and pawed, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Lake o sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe." It would merely be doing...

...That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping...

...pmyed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who still'd the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land ; It...

...That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through...the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping...