New Arrival, A

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="A_New_Arrival" id="A_New_Arrival"></SPAN>A New Arrival.</h3> <span class="i0">There came to port last Sunday night<br/></span> <span class="i2">The queerest little craft,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Without an inch of rigging on;<br/></span> <span class="i2">I looked and looked and laughed.<br/></span> <span class="i0">It seemed so curious that she<br/></span> <span class="i2">Should cross the Unknown water,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And moor herself right in my room,<br/></span> <span class="i2">My daughter, O my daughter!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet by these presents witness all<br/></span> <span class="i2">She's welcome fifty times,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And comes consigned to Hope and Love<br/></span> <span class="i2">And common-meter rhymes.<br/></span> <span class="i0">She has no manifest but this,<br/></span> <span class="i2">No flag floats o'er the water,<br/></span> <span class="i0">She's too new for the British Lloyds&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">My daughter, O my daughter!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Ring out, wild bells, and tame ones too!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ring out the lover's moon!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ring in the little worsted socks!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ring in the bib and spoon!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ring out the muse! ring in the nurse!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ring in the milk and water!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Away with paper, pen, and ink&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">My daughter, O my daughter!<br/></span> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />