<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Hero</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Onward to her destination,<br>O'er the stream that Hannah sped,<br>When a cry of consternation<br>Smote and chilled our hearts with dread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wildly leaping, madly sweeping,<br>All relentless in their sway,<br>Like a band of cruel demons<br>Flames were closing 'round our way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the horror of those moments;<br>Flames above and waves below-<br>Oh! the agony of ages<br>Crowded in one hour of woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fainter grew our hearts with anguish<br>In that hour with peril rife,<br>When we saw the pilot flying,<br>Terror-stricken, for his life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a man up rose before us-<br>We had once despised his race-<br>But we saw a lofty purpose<br>Lighting up his darkened face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the flames were madly roaring,<br>With a courage grand and high,<br>Forth he rushed unto our rescue,<br>Strong to suffer, brave to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helplessly the boat was drifting,<br>Death was staring in each face,<br>When he grasped the fallen rudder,<br>Took the pilot's vacant place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could he save us? Would he save us?<br>All his hope of life give o'er?<br>Could he hold that fated vessel<br>'Till she reached the nearer shore?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All our hopes and fears were centered<br>'Round his strong, unfaltering hand;<br>If he failed us we must perish,<br>Perish just in sight of land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breathlessly we watched and waited<br>While the flames were raging fast;<br>When our anguish changed to rapture-<br>We were saved, yes, saved at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never strains of sweetest music<br>Brought to us more welcome sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</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=391821" data-title="Our Hero de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Onward to her destination, O'er the stream that Hannah sped, When a cry of consternation Smote and chilled our hearts with dread. Wildly leaping, madly sweeping, All relentless in their sway, Like a band of cruel demons Flames were closing 'round..."></div> </div> </div>

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