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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409695" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cumberland</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,<br>On board of the Cumberland sloop-of-war;<br>And at times from the fortress across the bay<br>The alarum of drums swept past,<br>Or a bugle blast<br>From the camp on the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then far away to the south uprose<br>A little feather of snow-white smoke,<br>And we knew that the iron ship of our foes<br>Was steadily steering its course<br>To try the force<br>Of our ribs of oak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down upon us heavily runs,<br>Silent and sullen, the floating fort;<br>Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,<br>And leaps the terrible death,<br>With fiery breath,<br>From each open port.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are not idle, but send her straight<br>Defiance back in a full broadside!<br>As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,<br>Rebounds our heavier hail<br>From each iron scale<br>Of the monster's hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Strike your flag!' the rebel cries,<br>In his arrogant old plantation strain.<br>'Never!' our gallant Morris replies:<br>'It is better to sink than to yield!'<br>And the whole air is pealed<br>With the cheers of our men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then like a kraken huge and black,<br>She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp!<br>Down went the Cumberland all awrack,<br>With a sudden shudder of death,<br>And the cannon's breath<br>For her dying gasp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,<br>Still floated our flag at the mainmast-head.<br>Lord, how beautiful was thy day!<br>Every waft of the air<br>Was a whisper of prayer,<br>Or a dirge for the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ho! brave hearts that went down in the seas!<br>Ye are at peace in the troubled stream.<br>Ho! brave land! with hearts like these,<br>Thy flag, that is rent in twain,<br>Shall be one again,<br>And without a seam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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On board of the Cumberland sloop-of-war;
And at times from the fortress across the bay
The alarum of drums swept past,
Or a bugle blast
From the camp on the shore.

Then far away to the south uprose
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