<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lost on the Lady Elgin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up from the poor man's cottage--<br>Forth from the mansion door;<br>Sweeping across the waters,<br>And echoing 'long the shore;<br>Caught by the morning breezes--<br>Borne on the evening gale;<br>Cometh a voice of mourning,<br>A sad and solemn wail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lost on the Lady Elgin!<br>Sleeping to wake no more!<br>Number'd in that three hundred,<br>Who fail'd to reach the shore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! 'tis the cry of children,<br>Weeping for parents gone;<br>Children who slept at evening,<br>But orphans woke at dawn.<br>Sisters for brothers weeping,<br>Husbands for missing wives--<br>Such are the ties dis-sever'd<br>With those three hundred live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Staunch was the noble steamer--<br>Precious the freight she bore;<br>Gaily she loosed her cables,<br>A few short hours before.<br>Grandly she swept out harbor,<br>Joyfully ran her bell;<br>Little thought we, 'ere morning,<br>'Twould toll so sad a knell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</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=408097" data-title="Lost on the Lady Elgin de Henry Clay Work" data-description="Up from the poor man's cottage-- Forth from the mansion door; Sweeping across the waters, And echoing 'long the shore; Caught by the morning breezes-- Borne on the evening gale; Cometh a voice of mourning, A sad and solemn wail. Lost on the Lady ..."></div> </div> </div>

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