...unwilling rows to land : "Adieu!" she cries, and waved her lily hand. "'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS." JOHN GAY. 'TWAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled...

...alternately with lines of three feet, and this variety constitutes what is called Gay's Stanza ; as, 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look : The head was crown'd with willows, That trembled...

...to supply the want of a final syllable by prolonging a previous syllable. "'Twaa when the seas weie roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined." The rhythm here has room for an additional syllable, as if it had been written, roaring loud. Other...

...sailing they do go. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. GAY.— From the " What d'ye call it." jj WAS when the seas were roaring ' With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, I All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd...

...cries, and waved her lily hand. "'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS.o JOHN GAY. 'TWAS when the seas were roaring \Vith hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled...

...therefore, enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera." ' — Notes to SPENCE. 1 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled...

...Excessive alternating with the complete Trimeter, form what has been called Gay's Stanza ; eg : — " "Twas when the seas were roar-ing With hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deplor-ing All on a rock reclined." — Gay. 168. The other forms in which the simple regular measure occurs, are either varieties of those...

...always loved, now love the more.* The Peruigilium Veneris. JOHN GAT. 1688-1732. 'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. The What D'ye Call 't. Act ii. Sc. 8. So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, The dreadful reckoning,...

...enabled to adapt BO happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera'"— Notes to SPENCE. ** " 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled...

...while a niusical mate with the hiccups pealed forth Gay's beantiful ballad,— 'Twos when the eeas wore roaring . With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring. All on a ruck reclined, — there came a sharp rap at the steerage doors, and the master at arms, with his horn...