But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, / And smooth or rough, with them

The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire

In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.

We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .