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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539686" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Disastrous Fire at Scarborough</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th of June,<br>A mother and six children met with a cruel doom<br>In one of the most fearful fires for some years past<br>And as the spectators gazed upon them they stood aghast </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire broke out in a hairdresser's, in the town of Scarborough,<br>And as the fire spread it filled the people's hearts with sorrow;<br>But the police and the fire brigade were soon on the ground,<br>Then the hose and reel were quickly sent round. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was horrible to see the flames leaping up all around,<br>While amongst the spectators the silence was profound,<br>As they saw a men climb out to the parapet high,<br>Resolved to save his life, or in the attempt to die! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he gave one half frantic leap, with his heart full of woe,<br>And came down upon the roof of a public-house 20 feet below;<br>But, alas! he slipped and fell through the skylight,<br>And received cuts and bruises: oh, what a horrible sight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was the tenant of the premises, Mr Brookes,<br>And for his wife and family he enquires, with anxious looks,<br>But no one could tell him, it did appear,<br>And when told so adown his cheeks flowed many a tear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had been sleeping by himself on the second floor,<br>When suddenly alarmed, he thought he'd make sure,<br>And try to escape from the burning pile with his life,<br>And try and save his family and his wife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire brigade played on the first door with greet speed,<br>But the flames had very inflammable fuel upon which to feed,<br>So that the fire spread with awful rapidity,<br>And in twenty minutes the building was doomed to the fourth storey. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The firemen wrought with might and main,<br>But still the fire did on them gain,<br>That it was two hours before they could reach the second floor,<br>The heat being so intense they could scarcely it endure. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And inside all the time a woman and six children were there,<br>And when the firemen saw them, in amazement they did stare;<br>The sight that met their eyes made them for to start<br>Oh, Heaven! the sight was sufficient to rend the strongest heart.<br>For there was Mrs Brookes stretched dead on the floor,<br>Who had fallen in trying her escape for to procure.<br>She was lying with one arm over her ten months old child,<br>And her cries for help, no doubt, were frantic and wild;<br>And part of her arm was burned off as it lay above<br>The child she was trying to shield, which shows a mother's love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the baby's flesh was partly uninjured by the flames,<br>Which shows that the loving mother had endured great pains;<br>It, however, met its death by suffocation,<br>And as the spectators gazed thereon, it filled their hearts with consternation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The firemen acted heroicallv, without any dread,<br>And when they entered the back premises they found the six children dead;<br>But Mr Brookes, 'tis said, is still alive,<br>And I hope for many years he will survive. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Heaven! it is cruel to perish by fire,<br>Therefore let us be watchful before to our beds we retire,<br>And see that everything is in safe order before we fall asleep,<br>And pray that God o'er us in the night watch will keep.</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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