Or, a Life Before the Mast

By James Fenimore Cooper

Thou unrelenting Past!
Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,
And fetters sure and fast
Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.
BRYANT.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by

J. Fenimore Cooper,

in the clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern district of New York.