My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Ship's Locker   » Limbo   » GhostBoard: It was the schooner Hesperus... Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: GhostBoard: It was the schooner Hesperus... frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintery sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. [ 20. May 2009, 08:31: Message edited by: frin ] Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          The Skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Then up and spake an old Sailor, Had sailed the Spanish Main, "I pray thee, put into yonder port, for I fear a hurricane. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          "Last night the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see!" The skipper, he blew whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow." Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          "O father! I hear the church bells ring, Oh, say, what may it be?" "Tis a fog-bell on a rock bound coast!" -- And he steered for the open sea. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          "O father! I hear the sound of guns; Oh, say, what may it be?" Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!" Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          "O father! I see a gleaming light. Oh say, what may it be?" But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and hard sea-sand. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho! ho! the breakers roared! Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! Posts: 4496 | From: a library | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged frin Drinking coffee for Jesus # 9 Posted                          Here ends the lesson from the pen of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. -------------------- "Even the crocodile looks after her young" - Lamentations 4, remembering Erin. 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