Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California : with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (1850)
356 DECK AND PORT. dren wildly at play. Fourscore summers have shed their vernal honors since he was young as they, and yet their glee this day makes his pulses fly as if he were again a child. He watches their light foot- steps, their laughing eyes, and timid hands as they garland with flowers the… … “ A band of children, round a snow-white ram, There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers ; While peaceful as if still an unweaned lamb, The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers His sober head majestically tame, Or eats from out the palm, or playful lowers His brow as if in act to butt, and…
Congress (Frigate : 1841-1862) · Voyages to the Pacific coast · Travel
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