Misspeed

Is there anything in which the nurse has failed? the hostess come short? the huntress missped? the pretty waiter-girl blundered?

I think a majority of collisions on the water arise from an officer, as the common thing is, misspeeding himself, or giving an order to port when he means to say starboard, or from a man at the helm who has been there for some time with nothing to do specially suddenly getting an order and shoving his wheel the wrong way.

"Weep for yourselves," he said, And our eyes are full of tears; But ' tis for our plans missped, Not for our wasted years.

Now all my grief has come to naught, my plans have all missped; All that I see is injury and misery widespread.