{"product_id":"2940014607827","title":"THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG'","description":"_Madre Mia_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople may say thou art no longer young\u003cbr\u003e  And yet, to me, thy youth was yesterday,\u003cbr\u003e    A yesterday that seems\u003cbr\u003e    Still mingled with my dreams.\u003cbr\u003eAh! how the years have o'er thee flung\u003cbr\u003e  Their soft mantilla, grey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd e'en to them thou art not over old;\u003cbr\u003e  How could'st thou be! Thy hair\u003cbr\u003e    Hast scarcely lost its deep old glorious dark:\u003cbr\u003e    Thy face is scarcely lined. No mark\u003cbr\u003eDestroys its calm serenity. Like gold\u003cbr\u003e  Of evening light, when winds scarce stir,\u003cbr\u003e  The soul-light of thy face is pure as prayer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Land of Lonesomeness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow we had been five days in the boats, and in all this time made no\u003cbr\u003ediscovering of land. Then upon the morning of the sixth day came there a\u003cbr\u003ecry from the bo'sun, who had the command of the lifeboat, that there was\u003cbr\u003esomething which might be land afar upon our larboard bow; but it was very\u003cbr\u003elow lying, and none could tell whether it was land or but a morning\u003cbr\u003ecloud. Yet, because there was the beginning of hope within our hearts, we\u003cbr\u003epulled wearily towards it, and thus, in about an hour, discovered it to\u003cbr\u003ebe indeed the coast of some flat country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, it might be a little after the hour of midday, we had come so close\u003cbr\u003eto it that we could distinguish with ease what manner of land lay beyond\u003cbr\u003ethe shore, and thus we found it to be of an abominable flatness, desolate\u003cbr\u003ebeyond all that I could have imagined. Here and there it appeared to be\u003cbr\u003ecovered with clumps of queer vegetation; though whether they were small\u003cbr\u003etrees or great bushes, I had no means of telling; but this I know, that\u003cbr\u003ethey were like unto nothing which ever I had set eyes upon before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much as this I gathered as we pulled slowly along the coast, seeking\u003cbr\u003ean opening whereby we could pass inward to the land; but a weary time\u003cbr\u003epassed or ere we came upon that which we sought. Yet, in the end, we\u003cbr\u003efound it--a slimy-banked creek, which proved to be the estuary of a great\u003cbr\u003eriver, though we spoke of it always as a creek. Into this we entered, and\u003cbr\u003eproceeded at no great pace upwards along its winding course; and as we\u003cbr\u003emade forward, we scanned the low banks upon each side, perchance there\u003cbr\u003emight be some spot where we could make to land; but we found none--the\u003cbr\u003ebanks being composed of a vile mud which gave us no encouragement to\u003cbr\u003eventure rashly upon them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, having taken the boat something over a mile up the great creek, we\u003cbr\u003ecame upon the first of that vegetation which I had chanced to notice from\u003cbr\u003ethe sea, and here, being within some score yards of it, we were the\u003cbr\u003ebetter able to study it. Thus I found that it was indeed composed largely\u003cbr\u003eof a sort of tree, very low and stunted, and having what might be\u003cbr\u003edescribed as an unwholesome look about it. The branches of this tree, I\u003cbr\u003eperceived to be the cause of my inability to recognize it from a bush,\u003cbr\u003euntil I had come close upon it; for they grew thin and smooth through all\u003cbr\u003etheir length, and hung towards the earth; being weighted thereto by a\u003cbr\u003esingle, large cabbage-like plant which seemed to sprout from the extreme\u003cbr\u003etip of each.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresently, having passed beyond this clump of the vegetation, and the\u003cbr\u003ebanks of the river remaining very low, I stood me upon a thwart, by which\u003cbr\u003emeans I was enabled to scan the surrounding country. This I discovered,\u003cbr\u003eso far as my sight could penetrate, to be pierced in all directions with\u003cbr\u003einnumerable creeks and pools, some of these latter being very great of\u003cbr\u003eextent; and, as I have before made mention, everywhere the country was\u003cbr\u003elow set--as it might be a great plain of mud; so that it gave me a sense\u003cbr\u003eof dreariness to look out upon it. It may be, all unconsciously, that my\u003cbr\u003espirit was put in awe by the extreme silence of all the country around;\u003cbr\u003efor in all that waste I could see no living thing, neither bird nor\u003cbr\u003evegetable, save it be the stunted trees, which, indeed, grew in clumps\u003cbr\u003ehere and there over all the land, so much as I could see.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070723506416,"sku":"2940014607827","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014607827","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}