"His soul to Him who gave it rose;God led its long repose,Its glorious rest!And though the warrior's sun has set,Its light shall linger round us yet,Bright, radiant, blest!"
"His soul to Him who gave it rose;God led its long repose,Its glorious rest!And though the warrior's sun has set,Its light shall linger round us yet,Bright, radiant, blest!"
"His soul to Him who gave it rose;
God led its long repose,
Its glorious rest!
And though the warrior's sun has set,
Its light shall linger round us yet,
Bright, radiant, blest!"
THE END.
Footnotes
1Is the term applied to half-thawed ice or snow.
2First winter ice, or young ice, is called bay-ice, from an old Yorkshire wordbay, to bend.—Author.
3Hangman's Cove, a small harbour on the west side of Davis's Straits.
4Had we but happily known at that time of the perfect description of the Wellington Channel ice subsequent to our passage across in 1850, as shown by the tract of the American Expedition and Lieutenant De Haven's admirable report, we should not then have fallen into the error of believingbarriersof ice to be permanent in deep-water channels, a fallacy which it is to be hoped has exploded with many other misconceptions as to the fixed nature of ice, and the constant accumulation of it in Polar regions.
5The present talented hydrographer of the navy, Sir F. Beaufort, foretold to the author, a year before it was discovered, the existence of land north of Behring's Straits.