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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tay Bridge Disaster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!<br>Alas! I am very sorry to say<br>That ninety lives have been taken away<br>On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br>Which will be remember'd for a very long time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas about seven o'clock at night,<br>And the wind it blew with all its might,<br>And the rain came pouring down,<br>And the dark clouds seemed to frown,<br>And the Demon of the air seem'd to say --<br>&quot;I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the train left Edinburgh<br>The passengers' hearts were light and felt no sorrow,<br>But Boreas blew a terrific gale,<br>Which made their hearts for to quail,<br>And many of the passengers with fear did say --<br>&quot;I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,<br>Boreas he did loud and angry bray,<br>And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay<br>On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br>Which will be remember'd for a very long time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the train sped on with all its might,<br>And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,<br>And the passengers' hearts felt light,<br>Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,<br>With their friends at home they lov'd most dear,<br>And wish them all a happy New Year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay,<br>Until it was about midway,<br>Then the central girders with a crash gave way,<br>And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!<br>The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,<br>Because ninety lives had been taken away,<br>On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br>Which will be remember'd for a very long time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As soon as the catastrophe came to be known<br>The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,<br>And the cry rang out all o'er the town,<br>Good heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,<br>And a passenger train from Edinburgh,<br>Which fill'd all the people's hearts with sorrow,<br>And made them all for to turn pale,<br>Because none of the passengers were sav'd to tell the tale<br>How the disaster happen'd on the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br>Which will be remember'd for a very long time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It must have been an awful sight,<br>To witness in the dusky moonlight,<br>While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,<br>Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay.<br>Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,<br>I must now conclude my lay<br>By telling the world fearlessly without least dismay,<br>That your central girders would not have given way,<br>At least many sensible men do say,<br>Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,<br>At least many sensible men confesses,<br>For the stronger we our houses do build,<br>The less chance we have of being killed.</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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Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

'Twas about seven o'clock at night,
And the wind it b..."></div>
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