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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419406" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bantry Bay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,<br>All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:<br>A fortnight and nine days we in the harbour lay,<br>And no breeze ever reached us or strained a single sail.<br>Three ships of war had we, and the great guns loaded all;<br>But our ships were dead and beaten that had never feared a foe.<br>The winds becalmed around us cared for no cannon ball;<br>They locked us in the harbour and would not let us go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the nineteenth of October, by eleven of the clock,<br>The sky turned black as midnight and a sudden storm came on--<br>Awful and sudden--and the cables felt the shock;<br>Our anchors they all broke away and every sheet was gone.<br>The guns fired off amid the strife, but little hope had we;<br>The billows broke above the ship and left us all below.<br>The crew with one consent cried 'Bear further out to sea,'<br>But the waves obeyed no sailor's call, and we knew not where to go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She foundered on a rock, while we clambered up the shrouds,<br>And staggered like a mountain drunk, wedged in the waves almost.<br>The red hot boiling billows foamed in the stooping clouds,<br>And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.<br>Have pity for poor mariners, ye landsmen, in a storm.<br>O think what they endure at sea while safe at home you stay.<br>All ye that sleep on beds at night in houses dry and warm,<br>O think upon the whole ship's crew, all lost at Bantry Bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Clare">John Clare</a><div class=q>
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All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
A fortnight and nine days we in the harbour lay,
And no breeze ever reached us or strained a single sail.
Three ships of war had we, and the gr..."></div>
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