<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sunset Gun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Off Santa Cruz the western wave<br>Was crimson as with blood:<br>The sun was sinking to his grave<br>Beneath that angry flood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir Walter Turnbull, brave and stout,<br>Then shouted, 'Ho! lads; run-<br>The powder and the ball bring out<br>To fire the sunset gun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That punctual orb did ne'er omit<br>To keep, by land or sea,<br>Its every engagement; it<br>Shall never wait for me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold the black-mouthed cannon stand,<br>Ready with charge and prime,<br>The lanyard in the gunner's hand.<br>Sir Walter waits the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The glowing orb sinks in the sea,<br>And clouds of steam aspire,<br>Then fade, and the horizon's free.<br>Sir Walter thunders: 'Fire!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gunner pulls-the lanyard parts<br>And not a sound ensues.<br>The beating of ten thousand hearts<br>Was heard at Santa Cruz!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Off Santa Cruz the western wave<br>Was crimson as with blood;<br>The sun, with visage stern and grave,<br>Came back from out the flood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342992" data-title="The Sunset Gun de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Off Santa Cruz the western wave Was crimson as with blood: The sun was sinking to his grave Beneath that angry flood. Sir Walter Turnbull, brave and stout, Then shouted, 'Ho! lads; run- The powder and the ball bring out To fire the sunset gun. '..."></div> </div> </div>

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