<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of the 'Britain's Pride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a skipper of Lowestoft<br>That trawled the northern sea,<br>In a smack of thrice ten tons and seven,<br>And the <br>Britain's Pride<br>was she.<br>And the waves were high to windward,<br>And the waves were high to lee,<br>And he said as he lost his trawl-net,<br>'What is to be, will be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His craft she reeled and staggered,<br>But he headed her for the hithe,<br>In a storm that threatened to mow her down<br>As grass is mown by the scythe;<br>When suddenly through the cloud-rift<br>The moon came sailing soft,<br>And he saw one mast of a sunken ship<br>Like a dead arm held aloft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a voice came faint from the rigging-<br>'Help! help!' it whispered and sighed-<br>And a single form to the sole mast clung,<br>In the roaring darkness wide.<br>Oh the crew were but four hands all told,<br>On board of the <br>Britain's Pride<br>,<br>And ever 'Hold on till daybreak!'<br>Across the night they cried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slowly melted the darkness,<br>Slowly rose the sun,<br>And only the lad in the rigging<br>Was left, out of thirty-one,<br>To tell the tale of his captain,<br>The English sailor true,<br>That did his duty and met his death<br>As English sailors do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peace to the gallant spirit,<br>The greatly proved and tried,<br>And to all who have fed the hungry sea<br>That is still unsatisfied;<br>And honour and glory for ever,<br>While rolls the unresting tide,<br>To the skipper of little Lowestoft,<br>And the crew of the <br>Britain's Pride<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</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=539808" data-title="The Ballad of the 'Britain's Pride de William Watson" data-description="It was a skipper of Lowestoft That trawled the northern sea, In a smack of thrice ten tons and seven, And the Britain's Pride was she. And the waves were high to windward, And the waves were high to lee, And he said as he lost his trawl-net, 'Wha..."></div> </div> </div>

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