...every gun-fire spread A dimmer flash, a fainter roar ; — At length they saw, they heard no more. There are to whom that ship was dear, For love and...suspense to bear The hope that keeps alive despair. THE SEQUEL. He sought his sire from shore to shore, He sought him day by day ; The prow he track'd...

...every gun-fire spread A dimmer flash, a fainter roar ; — At length they saw, they heard, no more. There are to whom that ship was dear, For love and...long to unbelieve, But never cease to ache ; Still doomed, in sad suspense, to bear The hope that keeps alive despair. The Sequel. He sought his sire...

...thought—the terrible truth—at last steal on the heart. Who, indeed, can fathom the agony of those that ' Doubt, and fear, and wish and grieve, Believe and long to unbelieve, But never cease to ache ; Still doomed in sad suspense to bear The hope that keeps alive despair ?' Although dark uncertainty may rest...

...length they saw, tney heard no more. • The Cape of Good Hope, formerly called the Cape of Storms There are to whom that ship was dear, For love and...suspense, to bear The hope that keeps alive despair. The Sequel. He sought his sire from shore to shore, He sought him day by day ; The prow he track'd...

...every gun-fire spread A dimmer flash, a fainter roar ; — At length they saw, they heard, no more. There are to whom that ship was dear, For love and...long to unbelieve, But never cease to ache ; Still doomed, in sad suspense, to bear The hope that keeps alive despair. The Sequel. He sought his sire...

...every gun-fire spread A dimmer flash, a fainter roar; — At length they saw, they heard no more. " There are, to whom that ship was dear, For love and...suspense, to bear The hope that keeps alive despair." The following lines, which form the SEQUEL to this fine poem, relate to the voyage afterwards made...