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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Yellow River Inundation in China</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of September,<br>Which many people of Honan, in China, will long remember;<br>Especially those that survived the mighty deluge,<br>That fled to the mountains, and tops of trees, for refuge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river burst its embankments suddenly at dead of night,<br>And the rushing torrent swept all before it left and right;<br>All over the province of Honan, which for its fertility,<br>Is commonly called by historians, the garden of China. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river was at its fullest when the embankment gave way,<br>And when the people heard it, oh! horror and dismay;<br>'Twas then fathers and mothers leaped from their beds without delay,<br>And some saved themselves from being drowned, but thousands were swept away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was a horrible and most pitiful scene,<br>To hear fathers and mothers and their children loudly scream;<br>As the merciless water encircled they bodies around,<br>While the water spirits laughed to see them drowned. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! heaven, it must have been an appalling sight,<br>To witness in the dead stillness of the night<br>Frantic fathers and mothers, struggling hard against the roaring flood,<br>To save themselves and little ones, their own. flesh and blood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The watchmen tried to patch the breach, but it was all in vain,<br>Because the banks were sodden with the long prolonged rain;<br>And driven along by a high wind, which brought the last strain,<br>Which caused the water with resistless fury to spread o'er the plain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the torrent poured into the valley of the La Chia river,<br>Sweeping thousands of the people before it ere a helping hand could them deliver;<br>Oh! it was horrible to hear the crashing of houses fallen on every side,<br>As the flood of rushing waters spread far and wide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Chinese offer sacrifices to the water spirits twice a year,<br>And whether the water spirits or God felt angry I will not aver;<br>But perhaps God has considered such sacrifices a sin,<br>And has drowned so many thousands of them for not worshipping Him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How wonderful are the works of God,<br>At times among His people abroad;<br>Therefore, let us be careful of what we do or say,<br>For fear God doth suddenly take our lives away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The province of Honan is about half the size of Scotland,<br>Dotted over with about 3000 villages, most grand;<br>And inhabited by millions of people of every degree,<br>And these villages, and people were transformed into a raging sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The deluge swept on over the fertile and well-cultivated land,<br>And the rushing of the mighty torrent no power could withstand;<br>And the appalling torrent was about twenty feet deep,<br>And with resistless fury everything before it it did sweep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methinks I see the waste of surging waters, and hear its deafening roar,<br>And on its surface I see corpses of men and women by the score;<br>And the merciless torrent in the darkness of the night,<br>Sportively tossing them about, oh! what a horrible sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides there were buffaloes and oxen, timber, straw, and grain,<br>Also three thousand villages were buried beneath the waters of the plain;<br>And multitudes beneath their own roofs have found a watery grave,<br>While struggling hard, no doubt, poor souls their lives to save. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore good people at home or abroad,<br>Be advised by me and trust more in God,<br>Than the people of Honan, the benighted Chinese,<br>For fear God punished you likewise for your iniquities.</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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