<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Last Landfall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Outgoing: the Ooonah for Burnie'....<br>How often the radio spoke;<br>Till the stout little ship and her journey<br>Grew into a mild sort of joke.<br>But no longer her donkeyman grapples<br>His slings by the sweet island shore<br>For a cargo of timber or apples.<br>The Oonah goes sailing no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No more; save the landfall she's making,<br>The last, on her funeral trip<br>To the land where she goes for her breaking <br>Grim graveyard of many a ship.<br>And a few, it may be, will go grieving<br>To know of that busy craft's fate,<br>Who many times hooved with her heaving<br>As Oonah rolled over the strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There many proud, tall-masted schooners<br>She passed in the night, ships o' sail;<br>While stars winked o'er fond honeymooners<br>Who whispered soft words by her rail.<br>And tourists and grave politicians,<br>Who knew the old Oonah full well,<br>In all sorts of weather conditions,<br>Have had many a story to tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And many a soul who sailed with her,<br>Since Oonah first breasted the foam,<br>Has taken the long voyage thither,<br>To every man's ultimate home.<br>Who knows now what mystical journey<br>Those sail, to the sounds of high mirth<br>As a ghost-ships heads hull-down for Burnie,<br>With a complement not of the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357658" data-title="Last Landfall de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="'Outgoing: the Ooonah for Burnie'.... How often the radio spoke; Till the stout little ship and her journey Grew into a mild sort of joke. But no longer her donkeyman grapples His slings by the sweet island shore For a cargo of timber or apples. T..."></div> </div> </div>

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