...BARCELONA. " Says he, do you mind me, tho' storms e'er so oft Take the top lifts of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Dibdi*. Dec. 3. — AFTER the preceding days of calm and beautiful weather, we were awakened today...

...through the fog; damp and dreariness were the prevailing characteristies of the evening; and yet if the " Sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack," had looked down upon the antique towers of Champion Hall, he would have seen even a far at ...

...don't think me a milk-sop so soft To be taken for trifles aback; For they say there 'sa Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!...

...for the grammar of which Dibdin was scarcely responsible : — These are sweet little cherubs what sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. But in 1823 I was sent off to more serious schooling at Blandford, and both Sells and Hosier passed...

...belief that there is still truth in what the poet of the British Navy so deliciously sings, — There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. How closely angel and man are linked together, is again asserted by the same heavenly messenger, in...

...For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry, When last we weigh 'd anchor for sea, What argufies...

...railer, Trust your fortune's care to me." A paper on the table bears the descriptive lines, — " The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the purse of poor Jack." Various seizures were made about this time of the persons and papers of some of...

...railer, Trust your fortune's care to me." A paper on the table bears the descriptive lines, — " The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the purse of poor Jack." Various seizures were made about this time of the persons and papers of some of...

...with him or nigh, And saw the gallant hero die; Yet 'scaped each shot myself, for why,— "There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" To Italy a great grandee Brought me through fortune's steerage, By chance of war a British tar May...

...well at last. I always thought that was a good song which says, " There's a sweet little cherub which sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." I suppose that is what you mean : but, Harry, who is that sweet little cherub that sits up aloft? Harry....