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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Grace Darling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day<br>In the year of 1838, a steamer passed through the Fairway<br>Between the Farne Islands and the coast, on her passage northwards;<br>But the wind was against her, and the steamer laboured hard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There she laboured in the heavy sea against both wind and tide,<br>Whilst a dense fog enveloped her on every side;<br>And the mighty billows made her timbers creak,<br>Until at last, unfortunately, she sprung a leak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then all hands rushed to the pumps, and wrought with might and main.<br>But the water, alas! alarmingly on them did gain;<br>And the thick sleet was driving across the raging sea,<br>While the wind it burst upon them in all its fury. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the fearful gale and the murky aspect of the sky<br>Caused the passengers on board to Lament and sigh<br>As the sleet drove thick, furious, and fast,<br>And as the waves surged mountains high, they stood aghast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the screaming of the sea-birds foretold a gathering storm,<br>And the passengers, poor souls, looked pale and forlorn,<br>And on every countenance was depicted woe<br>As the &quot;Forfarshire&quot; steamer was pitched to and fro.<br>And the engine-fires with the water were washed out,<br>Then, as the tide set strongly in, it wheeled the vessel about<br>And the ill-fated vessel drifted helplessly along;<br>But the fog cleared up a little as the night wore on. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the terror-stricken crew saw the breakers ahead,<br>And all thought of being saved from them fled,<br>And the Farne lights were shining hazily through the gloom,<br>While in the fore-cabin a woman lay with two children in a swoon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the morning broke, the &quot;Forfarshire&quot; struck upon a rock,<br>And was dashed to pieces by a tempestuous shock,<br>Which raised her for a moment, and dashed her down again,<br>Then the ill-starred vessel was swallowed up in the briny main </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the vessel broke up, some nine or ten of the crew intent<br>To save their lives, or perish in the attempt,<br>Lowered one of the boats while exhausted and forlorn,<br>And, poor souls, were soon lost sight of in the storm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around the windlass on the forecastle some dozen poor wretches clung,<br>And with despair and grief their weakly hearts were rung<br>As the merciless sea broke o'er them every moment;<br>But God in His mercy to them Grace Darling sent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the first streak of dawn she early up had been,<br>And happened to look out upon the stormy scene,<br>And she descried the wreck through the morning gloom;<br>But she resolved to rescue them from such a perilous doom </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she cried, Oh! father dear, come here and see the wreck,<br>See, here take the telescope, and you can inspect;<br>Oh! father, try and save them, and heaven will you bless;<br>But, my darling, no help can reach them in such a storm as this. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! my kind father, you will surely try and save<br>These poor souls from a cold and watery grave;<br>Oh! I cannot sit to see them perish before mine eyes,<br>And, for the love of heaven, do not my pleading despise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then old Darling yielded, and launched the little boat,<br>And high on the big waves the boat did float;<br>Then Grace and her father took each an oar in hand,<br>And to see Grace Darling rowing the picture was grand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the little boat to the sufferers drew near,<br>Poor souls, they tried to raise a cheer;<br>But as they gazed upon the heroic Grace,<br>The big tears trickled down each sufferer's face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And nine persons were rescued almost dead with the cold<br>By modest and lovely Grace Darling, that heroine bold;<br>The survivors were taken to the light-house, and remained there two days,<br>And every one of them was loud in Grace Darling's praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grace Darling was a comely lass, with long, fair floating hair,<br>With soft blue eyes, and shy, and modest rare;<br>And her countenance was full of sense and genuine kindliness,<br>With a noble heart, and ready to help suffering creatures in distress. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, alas! three years after her famous exploit,<br>Which, to the end of time, will never be forgot,<br>Consumption, that fell destroyer, carried her away<br>To heaven, I hope, to be an angel for ever and aye. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before she died, scores of suitors in marriage sought her hand;<br>But no, she'd rather live in Longstone light-house on Farne island,<br>And there she lived and died with her father and mother,<br>And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another.</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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