<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Bells</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BENEATH the low-hung night cloud<br>That raked her splintering mast<br>The good ship settled slowly,<br>The cruel leak gained fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the awful ocean<br>Her signal guns pealed out.<br>Dear God! was that Thy answer<br>From the horror round about?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A voice came down the wild wind,<br>'Ho! ship ahoy!' its cry<br>'Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow<br>Shall lay till daylight by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hour after hour crept slowly,<br>Yet on the heaving swells<br>Tossed up and down the ship-lights,<br>The lights of the Three Bells!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ship to ship made signals,<br>Man answered back to man,<br>While oft, to cheer and hearten,<br>The Three Bells nearer ran;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the captain from her taffrail<br>Sent down his hopeful cry<br>'Take heart! Hold on!' he shouted;<br>'The Three Bells shall lay by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night across the waters<br>The tossing lights shone clear;<br>All night from reeling taffrail<br>The Three Bells sent her cheer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the dreary watches<br>Of storm and darkness passed,<br>Just as the wreck lurched under,<br>All souls were saved at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sail on, Three Bells, forever,<br>In grateful memory sail!<br>Ring on, Three Bells of rescue,<br>Above the wave and gale!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Type of the Love eternal,<br>Repeat the Master's cry,<br>As tossing through our darkness<br>The lights of God draw nigh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420804" data-title="The Three Bells de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="BENEATH the low-hung night cloud That raked her splintering mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God! was that Thy answer From the horror round about? A voice came d..."></div> </div> </div>

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