William Delf was certainly no great poet. Threescore and Ten stands out as a masterpiece compared to such as this verse in one of his other poems:

The "C.H.Spurgeon" too as well, the crew did suffer great
The second hand was swept away, it's awful to relate
The cook brought in a lifeless corpse, who died upon the deck,
While the vessel was lying in the sea totally a wreck.

Ruairidh