1 58 Concerning "the greatest sailor
since the world began."
—//—Tennyson?

In this matter of writing, resolve purpose
as one may to keep to the main road,
some ^ branching by-paths have an allurement enticement not
readily to be withstood. Beckoned by the
genius of Nelson ^ Knowingly I am going to err
into such a by-path. If the reader
will keep me company I shall be glad.
At the least we can promise ourselves that
pleasure which is wickedly said to be
in sinning, for a literary sin it the brief
divergence will be. [Very likely
it is no new remark that the inventions
of our time have at last brought
1 58 Concerning "the greatest sailor
since the world began."
—//—Tennyson?

In this matter of writing, resolve purpose
as one may to keep to the main road,
some ^ branching by-paths have an allurement enticement not
readily to be withstood. Beckoned by the
genius of Nelson ^ Knowingly I am going to err
into such a by-path. If the reader
will keep me company I shall be glad.
At the least we can promise ourselves that
pleasure which is wickedly said to be
in sinning, for a literary sin it the brief
divergence will be. [Very likely
it is no new remark that the inventions
of our time have at last brought

Transcribed by: John Bryant