30 MARCH 1918, Page 13

WANTED, AN AUTHOR.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Can any of your readers give the author of the poem of which I quote one stanza? The poem is set to music by Blumen- thal, and is said to be from an old MS. The other day I saw the • lines Quoted in a novel by Graham Hope as by Lord Inchiquin. The time was that of Charles II., but the character may have LIFE.

Our life is like a narrow raft Afloat upon the hungry sea, Hereon is -but a little space, And all men eager for a place Do thrust each other in the sea. And each man eager for a place Doth thrust his brother in the sea."