gives the custom-house entry in full, in which the change of a single
vowel makes a prodigious difference. The entry is this: '100 _cots_--125
dollars--to Granada.'




A MARINER'S WIFE.


'Ah me, my dream!' pale Helen cried,
With hectic cheeks aglow:
'Why wake me? Hide that cruel beam!
I'll not win such another dream
On this side heaven, I know.

'I almost feel the leaping waves,
The wet spray on my hair,
The salt breeze singing in the sail,
The kind arms, strong as iron-mail,
That held me safely there.

'I'll tell thee:--On some shore I stood,
Or sea, or inland bay,
Or river broad, I know not--save
There seemed no boundary to the wave
That chafed and moaned alway.

'The shore was lone--the wave was lone--
The horizon lone; no sail