ON A MARINE OFFICER

Here lies retired from busy scenes

A First Lieutenant of Marines;

Who lately lived in peace and plenty

On board the ship the Atalanta:

Now, stripp’d of all his warlike show,

And laid in box of elm below,

Confined to earth in narrow borders,

He rises not till further orders.[337]

[337] From the “Notes of a Bookworm.”

Vol. II.--36.

[Illustration: ~Nathan Coward,~