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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wreck of the Steamer London</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day,<br>That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay,<br>Left Gravesend harbour, and sailed gaily away<br>On board the steamship "London,"<br>Bound for the city of Melbourne,<br>Which unfortunately was her last run,<br>Because she was wrecked on the stormy main,<br>Which has caused many a heart to throb with pain,<br>Because they will ne'er look upon their lost ones again. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Twas on the 11th of January they anchored at the Nore;<br>The weather was charming -- the like was seldom seen before,<br>Especially the next morning as they came in sight<br>Of the charming and beautiful Isle of Wight,<br>But the wind it blew a terrific gale towards night,<br>Which caused the passengers' hearts to shake with fright,<br>And caused many of them to sigh and mourn,<br>And whisper to themselves, We will ne'er see Melbourne. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Amongst the passengers was Gustavus V. Brooke,<br>Who was to be seen walking on the poop,<br>Also clergymen, and bankers, and magistrates also,<br>All chatting merrily together in the cabin below;<br>And also wealthy families returning to their dear native land,<br>And accomplished young ladies, most lovely and grand,<br>All in the beauty and bloom of their pride,<br>And some with their husbands sitting close by their side. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Twas all on a sudden the storm did arise,<br>Which took the captain and passengers all by surprise,<br>Because they had just sat down to their tea,<br>When the ship began to roll with the heaving of the sea,<br>And shipped a deal of water, which came down on their heads,<br>Which wet their clothes and also their beds;<br>And caused a fearful scene of consternation,<br>And amongst the ladies great tribulation,<br>And made them cry out, Lord, save us from being drowned,<br>And for a few minutes the silence was profound. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then the passengers began to run to and fro,<br>With buckets to bale out the water between decks below,<br>And Gustavus Brooke quickly leapt from his bed<br>In his Garibaldi jacket and drawers, without fear or dread,<br>And rushed to the pump, and wrought with might and main;<br>But alas! all their struggling was in vain,<br>For the water fast did on them gain;<br>But he enacted a tragic part until the last,<br>And sank exhausted when all succour was past;<br>While the big billows did lash her o'er,<br>And the Storm-fiend did laugh and roar. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Oh, Heaven! it must have really been<br>A most harrowing and pitiful scene<br>To hear mothers and their children loudly screaming,<br>And to see the tears adown their pale faces streaming,<br>And to see a clergyman engaged in prayer,<br>Imploring God their lives to spare,<br>Whilst the cries of the women and children did rend the air. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then the captain cried, Lower down the small boats,<br>And see if either of them sinks or floats;<br>Then the small boats were launched on the stormy wave,<br>And each one tried hard his life to save<br>From a merciless watery grave. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A beautiful young lady did madly cry and rave,<br>"Five hundred sovereigns, my life to save!"<br>But she was by the sailors plainly told<br>For to keep her filthy gold,<br>Because they were afraid to overload the boat,<br>Therefore she might either sink or float,<br>Then she cast her eyes to Heaven, and cried, Lord, save me,<br>Then went down with the ship to the bottom of the sea,<br>Along with Gustavus Brooke, who was wont to fill our hearts with glee<br>While performing Shakespearian tragedy. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And out of eighty-two passengers only twenty were saved,<br>And that twenty survivors most heroically behaved.<br>For three stormy days and stormy nights they were tossed to and fro<br>On the raging billows, with their hearts full of woe,<br>Alas! poor souls, not knowing where to go,<br>Until at last they all agreed to steer for the south,<br>And they chanced to meet an Italian barque bound for Falmouth,<br>And they were all rescued from a watery grave,<br>And they thanked God and Captain Cavassa, who did their lives save.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a></strong></div>