POETRY.

OLD ANCHOR CHANTY.

FIRST VOICE. With a long heavy heave, my very famous (Csiocus. Bring home ! heave and rally !) SECOND VOICE. And why do you, lad, look so pale? Is it for love or lack of ale ?

FIRST VOICE. All hands bear a hand that have a hand to len'— And there never was a better haul than you gave then . . .

(Coocus. Bring home !)

FLEET VOICE. Heave 'hearty, my very famous men . . .

(Bring home ! heave and rally!) Sitcom) VOICE. Curl and scud, rack and squall—sea-clouds you shall know them all . . . .

FIRST VOICE. For we're bound for Valparaiso and found the Horn again From Mont Desolado to the parish of Big Ben'

(Bring home !)

FIRST Vows. Heave hearty, my very famous men . . . .

(Bring home! heave and rally !)

SECOND VOICE. Bold through all or scuppers under, when shall we be back, I wonder?

Mawr Voice. From the green and chancy water we shall all come back again To the Lizard and the ladies—but who can say for when? . . . .

(Bring home!)

FIRST VOICE. Heave and she's a-trip, my very famous men .... (Bring home ! heave and rally 1) SECOND Vows. When your fair lass says farewell to you a fair wind I will sell to you . . .

Foam Voice. Yon may sell your soul's salvation, but I'll bet you two-pound-ten She's a-tripping on the ribs of the devil in his den . . .

(Bring home !)

FIRBT Vows. Heave and she's a-peak, my very famous men .... (Bring home! heave and rally !) &worm Votes. You shall tread, for one crusade, Fiddler's Green in El Dorado . . . .

Erns? Vomit. Why, I've seen less lucky fellows pay for liquor with doubloons

And for 'batty with ozellas, gold mol2urs, and ducatoons'

(Bring home !) Finn Vows. Heave and a-weigh, my very famous men . . . .

(Bring home ! heave and rally !) SECOND VOICE. And drop her nest in heat or cold, the flukes of

England they shall hold •

Frawr Vows. Ring and shank, stock and fluke, she's coming into ken— Give a long and heavy heave, she's a-coming into ken. . . .

(Bring home !)

FrasT Votes. Heave and in sight, my very famous men . . . .

(Bring home! heave and rally!)

Sacoun Vows. With her shells and tangle dripping she's a beauty we are shipping. . . .

FIRST VOICE. And she likes a bed in harbour like a dedent citizen,

But her fancy for a hammock on the deep sea comes again . . . .

(Bring home!) FIRST VOICE. Heave and she's a-wash, my very famous men .... (Bring home! heave and rally !) Simone Vows. 0 never stop to write the news that we are off upon a cruise . . . .

Fnurr Votes. For the Gulf of Californy's got a roller now and then But its better to be sailing than a-sucking of a (Bring home !)

HERBERT TRENCH.