Original Poetry.
THE MARINER'S GRAVE. JffTIS past! beneath the angry sea tie lies at rest—his journey o'er; His the uiilows’ t'urious roar: He died not in the tempeM/s strife, A cureless grasp—a sudden slip,— A vain attempt to save his life; Then—one soul less on board the ship. Tet who shall paint his wild despair As swill iho vessel sped away, And fierce sea vultures thro' the air _ Like lightning Hash swooped o’er their prey t rerchaucc, e’er i"osed ihu ’■ silver strand." ilo tl.ought of those ho ne’er nii.,ht roe, Eis epitaph by those on land—- “ ’Tis but a sailor lost at sea 1 “ To die alone! less bitter state V* heu all the hast'uing doom must share. As iu the ‘ London’s’ gloomy fate, [prayer; Where death's stern pangs were soothed by Harder, when death is at the Up, To wrestle with the treaeu’rous foam, And watch, with dying eyes, the ship Last speeding to Ihe longed-for home. 11. E. L. Napier, July 22,15G7.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 494, 22 July 1867, Page 3
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164Original Poetry. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 494, 22 July 1867, Page 3
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