ce danger's in the rear;
While I live, I claim obedience; if I die, I ask a tear.'

11.

With a smile to cheer the timid, and a hand to help the weak,
There was firmness in his accents, there was hope upon his cheek.
A hundred men are safe on shore, but one is left behind;
There's a shriek is mingling wildly with the wailing of the wind.
The rope has snapped! Almighty God! the noble and the brave
Is left alone to perish at the flowing of the wave.

12.

'Midst the foaming of the breakers and the howling of the storm,
'Midst the crashing of the timbers, stood a solitary form;
He thought upon his distant home, then raised his look on high,
And thought upon another home--a home beyond the sky.
Sublimer than the elements, his spirit was at rest,
And calm as if his little one was nestling on his breast.

13.

In agony they watched him, as each feature grew elate,
As with folded arms and fearless mien lie waited for his fate;
Now seen above the breakers, and now hidden by the spray,
As stealthily, yet surely, heaved the ocean to its prey.
A fiercer wave rolled onward with the wild gust in its wale,
And lifeless on the billows lay the Captain of the Drake.

J. HENEAGE JESSE.

FOOTNOTES:

[16] Marshall's _Naval Biography_.

FURY.

In the year 1824, notwithstanding the repeated failures which had
attended the expeditions to the Polar Seas, the British government
determined to make another attempt to discover a passage between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; for this purpose Captain, now Sir Edward
Parry was appointed to the command of the Hecla, and a second vessel
was commissioned by Captain Hoppner, who was directed to put himself
under the orders of the beforenamed officer.

The vessels being fully equipped and furnished with provisions and
stores for two years, sailed from England on the 16th of May. Their
progress had been unexpectedly slow, from the quantity and magnitude
of the ice, which had kept the people constantly employed in heaving,
warping, or sawing through it, so that they did not arrive at the
entrance of Lancaster Sound until nearly the middle of September.

There was no doubt that the more than ordinary difficulties which they
encountered in crossing the barrier of ice in Baffin's Bay was owing
to a season of very unusual severity; indeed, Captain Parry was of
opinion, that but for Phillips's capstan, the Hecla and Fury would
have been