The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 471
be ;And she thought of Christ who stilled the waves On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear,Through the whistling sleet and snow. Like a sheeted ghost the vessel sweptTowards the reef of Normans Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ;It was… … O father ! I hear the sound of guns.Oh say, what may it be? Some ship in distress that cannot liveIn such an angry sea ! She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool,But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. THE BEGGAR MAID. 427 Her rattling…
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