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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wreck of the Schooner Samuel Crawford</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November,<br>Which the surviving crew of the &quot;Samuel Crawford&quot; will long remember,<br>She was bound to Baltimore with a cargo of pine lumber;<br>But, alas! the crew suffered greatly from cold and hunger. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas on December 3rd when about ten miles south-west<br>Of Currituck light, and scudding at her best;<br>That a heavy gale struck her a merciless blow,<br>Which filled the hearts of the crew with fear and woe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the merciless snow came down, hiding everything from view,<br>And as the night closed in the wind tempestuous blew;<br>Still the brave crew reefed the spanker and all the sails,<br>While not one amongst them with fear bewails. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still the gallant little schooner ploughed on the seas,<br>Through the blinding snow and the stormy breeze;<br>Until it increased to a fearful hurricane,<br>Yet the crew wrought manfully and didn't complain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But during the night the wind it harder blew,<br>And the brave little schooner was hove to;<br>And on the morning of December the 4th the wind died out,<br>But it rent the schooner from stem to stern without any doubt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the seas were running mountains high,<br>While the poor sailors, no doubt, heaved many a sigh;<br>Because they must have felt cold, and the schooner sprung a leak,<br>Still they wrought while their hearts were like to break. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the wind it sprang up in terrific fury again,<br>But the crew baled out the water with might and main;<br>But still the water fast on them did gain,<br>Yet the brave heroes disdained to complain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the morning of December the 4th she was scudding before a hurricane,<br>And the crew were exhausted, but managed the poop to gain;<br>And the vessel was tossed like a cork on the wave,<br>While the brave crew expected to meet with a watery grave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And huge beams and pine planks were washed overboard,<br>While Captain Tilton looked on and said never a word;<br>And the crew likewise felt quite content,<br>Until the fore-and-aft rigging overboard went. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then loudly for help to God they did cry,<br>And to their earnest prayer He did draw nigh;<br>And saved them from a watery grave,<br>When help from Him they did crave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor souls they expected to be engulfed every hour,<br>And to appease their hunger they made dough with salt water and flour;<br>And made a sort of hard cake placed over a griddle hole,<br>To satisfy their hunger, which, alas! is hard to thole. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And two of these cakes each man got per day,<br>Which the poor creatures devoured in a ravenous way;<br>Along with a little fresh water to wash it down,<br>Which they most thankfully praised God for and didn't frown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on the 10th of December when they had burned their last light,<br>The ship &quot;Orinoco&quot; bound for New York hove in sight;<br>And they were rescued safely and taken on board,<br>And they thanked the Captain, and likewise the Lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Captain of the &quot;Orinoco&quot; ordered her to be set on fire,<br>Which was quickly done as he did desire;<br>Which caused the rescued crew to stare in amaze,<br>And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze.</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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