• From “Gebir,” Book I.
    I AM not daunted, no; I will engage.
    But first, said she, what wager will you lay?
    A sheep, I answered, add whate’er you will.
    I cannot, she replied, make that return:
    Our hided vessels in their pitchy round
    Seldom, unless from rapine, hold a sheep.
    But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue
    Within, and they that...