The progress of the Allies has been, all things considered,
wonderfully rapid„,for the weather has been anything but favourable. During the earlier part of the week a stiff gale was blowing. Admiral Carden, indeed, was in the /position ascribed by Byron to Leander when he bad to face the waters of the Hellespont in bad weather .— " The winds are high on Hello's wave
As on that night of stormy water When Love, who sent, forgot to save The young, the beautiful, the bravo. The lonely hope of Sestos' daughter."
But Admiral Carden, like Leander again, refused to be put off from his venture by rough weather
Though rising gale and breaking foam And shrieking seabirds warn'd him home
• • • He could not see, he would not hear, Or sound or sign foreboding fear;
His ear but rang with Hero's song,
• Ye waves, divide not lovers long That tale is old, but Love anew May nerve young hearts to prove as true."
