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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Calamity in London</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day,<br>That ten persons' lives were taken sway,<br>By a destructive fire in London, at No. 9 Dixie Street,<br>Alas! so great was the fire, the victims couldn't retreat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Dixie Street, No. 9, if was occupied by two families,<br>Who were all quite happy, and sitting at their ease;<br>One of these was a labourer, David Barber and his wife,<br>And a dear little child, he loved as his life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barber's mother and three sisters were living on the ground floor,<br>And in the upper two rooms lived a family who were very poor,<br>And all had retired to rest, on the night of Christmas day,<br>Never dreaming that by ~e their lives would be taken away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barber got up on Sunday morning to prepare breakfast for his family,<br>And a most appalling sight he then did see;<br>For he found the room was full of smoke,<br>So dense, indeed, that it nearly did him choke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then fearlessly to the room door he did creep,<br>And tried to aronse the inmates, who were asleep;<br>And succeeded in getting his own family out into the street,<br>And to him the thought thereof was surely very sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by this time the heroic Barber's strength was failing,<br>And his efforts to warn the family upstairs were unavailing;<br>And, before the alarm was given, the house was in flames,<br>Which prevented anything being done, after all his pains. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was a horrible and heart-rending sight<br>To see the house in a blaze of lurid light,<br>And the roof fallen in, and the windows burnt out,<br>Alas! 'tis pitiful to relate, without any doubt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Heaven! 'tis a dreadful calamity to narrate,<br>Because the victims have met with a cruel fate;<br>Little did they think they were going to lose their lives by fire,<br>On that night when to their beds they did retire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was sometime before the gutted house could be entered in,<br>Then to search for the bodies the officers in charge did begin;<br>And a horrifying spectacle met their gaze,<br>Which made them stand aghast in a fit of amaze. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometime before the firemen arrived,<br>Ten persons of their lives had been deprived,<br>By the choking smoke, and merciless flame,<br>Which will long in the memory of their relatives remain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Heaven! if was a frightful and pitiful sight to see<br>Seven bodies charred of the Jarvis' family;<br>And Mrs Jarvis was found with her child, and both carbonised,<br>And as the searchers gazed thereon they were surprised. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And these were lying beside the fragments of the bed,<br>And in a chair the tenth victim was sitting dead;<br>Oh, Horrible! Oh, Horrible! what a sight to behold,<br>The charred and burnt bodies of young and old. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good people of high and low degree,<br>Oh! think of this sad catastrophe,<br>And pray to God to protect ye from fire,<br>Every night before to your beds ye retire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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By a destructive fire in London, at No. 9 Dixie Street,
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