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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539592" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Captain Teach alias Black Beard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port<br>On board a privateer, in search of sport,<br>As one of the crew, during the French War in that station,<br>And for personal courage he soon gained his Captain's approbation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the spring of 1717, Captajn Harnigold and Teach sailed from Providence<br>For the continent of America, and no further hence;<br>And in their way captured a vessel laden with flour,<br>Which they put on board their own vessels in the space of an hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They also seized two other vessels snd took some gallons of wine,<br>Besides plunder to a considerable value, and most of it most costly design;<br>And after that they made a prize of a large French Guinea-man,<br>Then to act an independent part Teach now began. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the news spread throughout America, far and near,<br>And filled many of the inhabitants' hearts with fear;<br>But Lieutenant Maynard with his sloops of war directly steered,<br>And left James River on the 17th November in quest of Black Beard,<br>And on the evening of the 21st came in sight of the pirate;<br>And when Black Beard spied his sloops he felt elate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he saw the sloops sent to apprehend him,<br>He didn't lose his courage, but fiendishly did grin;<br>And told his men to cease from drinking and their tittle-tattle,<br>Although he had only twenty men on board, and prepare for battle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In case anything should happen to him during the engagement,<br>One of his men asked him, who felt rather discontent,<br>Whether his wife knew where he had buried his pelf,<br>When he impiously replied that nobody knew but the devil and himself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the Morning Maynard weighed and sent his boat to sound,<br>Which, coming near the pirate, unfortunately ran aground;<br>But Maynard lightened his vessel of the ballast and water,<br>Whilst from the pirates' ship small shot loudly did clatter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the pirates' small shot or slugs didn't Maynard appal,<br>He told his men to take their cutlasses and be ready upon his call;<br>And to conceal themselves every man below,<br>While he would remain at the helm and face the foe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Black Beard cried, &quot;They're all knocked on the head,&quot;<br>When he saw no hand upon deck he thought they were dead;<br>Then Black Beard boarded Maynard'a sloop without dismay,<br>But Maynard's men rushed upon deck, then began the deadly fray.<br>Then Black Beard and Maynard engaged sword in hand,<br>And the pirate fought manfully and made a bold stand;<br>And Maynard with twelve men, and Black Beard with fourteen,<br>Made the most desperate and bloody conflict that ever was seen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last with shots and wounds the pirate fell down dead,<br>Then from his body Maynard severed the pirate's head,<br>And suspended it upon his bowsprit-end,<br>And thanked God Who so mercifully did him defend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black Beard derived his name from his long black beard,<br>Which terrified America more than any comet that had ever appeared;<br>But, thanks be to God, in this age we need not be afeared,<br>Of any such pirates as the inhuman Black Beard.</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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On board a privateer, in search of sport,
As one of the crew, during the French War in that station,
And for personal courage he soon gained his Captain's approbation. 

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