Edward Wehnert

1798 text

I took the oars: the Pilot’s boy,
Who now doth crazy go,
Laugh’d loud and long, and all the while
His eyes went to and fro,
“ Ha! ha!” quoth he—”full plain I see,
“The devil knows how to row.”

1834 text

I took the oars: the Pilot’s boy,
Who now doth crazy go,
Laughed loud and long, and all the while
His eyes went to and fro.
“ Ha! ha!” quoth he, “full plain I see,
The Devil knows how to row.”