<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wreck of the Thomas Dryden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I stood upon the sandy beach<br>One morn near Pentland Ferry,<br>I saw a beautiful brigantine,<br>And all her crew seem'd merry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When lo! the wind began to howl,<br>And the clouds began to frown,<br>And in the twinkling of an eye<br>The rain came pouring down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the sea began to swell,<br>And seem'd like mountains high,<br>And the sailors on board that brigantine<br>To God for help did loudly cry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was an awful sight<br>To see them struggling with all their might,<br>And Imploring God their lives to save<br>From a merciless watery grave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their cargo consisted of window-glass,<br>Also coal and linseed-oil,<br>Which helped to calm the raging sea<br>That loud and angry did boil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because when the bottoms of the barrels<br>Were with the raging billows stove in,<br>The oil spread o'er the water,<br>And smoothed the stormy billows' din! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she began to duck in the trough of the sea,<br>Which was fearful to behold;<br>And her crossyards dipped in the big billows<br>As from side to side she rolled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was tossed about on the merciless sea,<br>And received some terrible shocks,<br>Until at last she ran against<br>A jagged reef of rocks. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas then she was rent asunder,<br>And the water did rush in --<br>It was most dreadful to hear it,<br>It made such a terrific din. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the crew jumped into the small boats<br>While the Storm-fiend did roar,<br>And were very near being drowned<br>Before they got ashore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the coal-dust blackened the water<br>Around her where she lay,<br>And the barrels of linseed-oil<br>They floated far away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the crew did get ashore,<br>They were shaking with cold and fright,<br>And they went away to Huna inn,<br>And got lodgings for the night!</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539740" data-title="The Wreck of the Thomas Dryden de William Topaz McGonagall" data-description="As I stood upon the sandy beach One morn near Pentland Ferry, I saw a beautiful brigantine, And all her crew seem'd merry. When lo! the wind began to howl, And the clouds began to frown, And in the twinkling of an eye The rain came pouring down...."></div> </div> </div>

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