Downing legends : stories in rhyme / J. W. DeForest [electronic text]
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Downing legends : stories in rhyme / J. W. DeForest [electronic text]
Author
De Forest, John William, 1826-1906
Publication
New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor
1901
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XXX
"Another horror! We were doomedTo gaze upon the wrecks that boomedAnd signalled vainly for relief.Wherever tore the ambushed reef,Wherever gorged the stealthy shark,Wherever lurched a riven bark,We hasted, spite of helm and sails,And endless wrath of heady gales.No idle prayers, no hopeless sighs,No last despairs, no bubbling cries,Of ocean folk beneath the skies,But there we ride, we ever benBeholders curst of living men.
No rest! no calm! Forever bruisedBy fronting storms, our galley cruisedThrough tropic blaze and polar cold,Through mighty meres, unguessed of old,
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From foaming waste to foaming wasteWith headlong, blinding, madding haste,Only to witness everywhereIncessant woe and wild despair.
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