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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539708" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Loss of the Victoria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom,<br>Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb;<br>Who served aboard the &quot; Victoria,&quot; the biggest ship in the navy,<br>And one of the finest battleships that ever sailed the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And commanded by Sir George Tyron, a noble hero bold,<br>And his name on his tombstone should be written in letters of gold;<br>For he was skilful in naval tactics, few men could with him cope,<br>And he was considered to be the nation's hope. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas on Thursday, the twenty-second of June,<br>And off the coast of Syria, and in the afternoon,<br>And in the year of our Lord eighteen ninety-three,<br>That the ill-fated &quot;Victoria&quot; sank to the bottom of the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The &quot;Victoria&quot; sank in fifteen minutes after she was rammed,<br>In eighty fathoms of water, which was smoothly calmed;<br>The monster war vessel capsized bottom uppermost,<br>And, alas, lies buried in the sea totally lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The &quot;Victoria&quot; was the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet,<br>And was struck by the &quot;Camperdown&quot; when too close they did meet,<br>While practising the naval and useful art of war,<br>How to wheel and discharge their shot at the enemy afar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Heaven ! Methinks I see some men lying in their beds,<br>And some skylarking, no doubt, and not a soul dreads<br>The coming avalanche that was to seal their doom,<br>Until down came the mighty fabric of the engine room. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then death leaped on them from all quarters in a moment,<br>And there were explosions of magazines and boilers rent;<br>And the fire and steam and water beat out all life,<br>But I hope the drowned ones are in the better world free from strife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir George Tyron was on the bridge at the moment of the accident<br>With folded arms, seemingly quite content;<br>And seeing the vessel couldn't be saved he remained till the last,<br>And went down with the &quot;Victoria&quot; when all succour was past. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methinks I see him on the bridge like a hero brave,<br>And the ship slowly sinking into the briny wave;<br>And when the men cried, &quot;Save yourselves without delay,&quot;<br>He told them to save themselves, he felt no dismay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas only those that leaped from the vessel at the first alarm,<br>Luckily so, that were saved from any harm<br>By leaping into the boats o'er the vessel's side,<br>Thanking God they had escaped as o'er the smooth water they did glide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Whitehall, London, mothers and fathers did call,<br>And the pitiful scene did the spectators' hearts appal;<br>But the most painful case was the mother of J. P. Scarlet,<br>Who cried, &quot;Oh, Heaven, the loss of my son I'll never forget.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Heaven! Befriend the bereaved ones, hard is their fate,<br>Which I am sorry at heart to relate;<br>But I hope God in His goodness will provide for them,<br>Especially the widows, for the loss of their men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! Britannia now will mourn the loss of her naval commander,<br>Who was as brave as the great Alexander;<br>And to his honour be it fearlessly told,<br>Few men would excel this hero bold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! 'Tis sad to be buried in eighty fathoms of Syrian sea,<br>Which will hide the secret of the &quot;Victoria&quot; to all eternity;<br>Which causes Britannia's sorrow to be profound<br>For the brave British Tars that have been drowned.</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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