1 JUNE 1867, Page 14

DRIFTING.

" Successugue acrior ipso " Prcraa petit nutria et pelago decurrit aperto."

! let the good ship reel before the breeze, Borne on the shifting tided of chance and change ; On, to untravelled gulfs and islands strange, Atlantis new, or old Hesperides.

On! though no pilot's eye the issue sees, Charts thrown aside, and helm at random turned, The crew bewildered, wiser counsel spurned, And dark clouds gathering o'er the foam-flecked seas.

What matter, so with laugh and jest and jeer The ship speeds on, nor slackens on her way, And shouts of many voices shut out fear, And late-grasped power lives out its little day ?

Come good, come ill, we sing and pipe and dance, Slaves of each passing wind of Circumstance. E. H. P.