...BARK. How gloriously her gallant coarse she goes \ Her white wings flying never from her foes ; — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. — BYRON. Bright and beauteous, fearless and free, Speeds on my gallant bark, On stormy winds, o'er...

...from that mine of poetic imagination, the mind of Byron, describes the vessel's course by saying — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to drive the elements to strife," though it could be still quoted as even more applicable where steam...

...adieu to my friends, (at Baltimore,) as we stepped on board a Norfolk steamer. " She walks the water like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Soon we were leaving the city, with her Eroud monuments, her towers and spires, ouses and shipping...

...old Grecian to evaporate in the process. We would compare the original to a gallant vessel, that " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife ;" Cowper's translation, to the same vessel, just about to depart from port, with all her rigging perfect...

...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goe» ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — urels on the bald first Caesar's head ; з When the light shines serene but doth not Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck 1 IV....

...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point — she is abreast the...

...seaman than a heavy gale of wind. (Signed) NEPTUNE. Witness, AWPHITRITE, her ¡xj mark. CHAPTER I. . She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife : Who would not brave the battle and the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? COBS4IR....

...disappearance of the poetry, hitherto associated with the navy, and may perhaps be reminded of Byron's lines : ''She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. AVho wou'd not brave the battle-fire— the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?" and then...

...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point — she is abreast the...

...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire— the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV....