"The sailors' chance of life appears but small, / Between the sea and that high rocky wall, / But, full of hope, they look along the shores, / And find some cordage with some broken oars; / Of broken twigs they find a scanty stock, / Of these a ladder's made to climb the rock."—Barber, 1857

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

"The sailors' chance of life appears but small, / Between the sea and that high rocky wall, / But, full…