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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 385

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orms are raging, No matter how wild the night,The gleam of their swinging lanterns Shines out with a friendly light.And many a shipwrecked sailor Thanks God, with his gaspingbreath.For the sturdy arms of the surfmen That drew him away from death. And so, when the wind is wailing, And the air grows… … I hear the shouts of the sailors,The boom of the frozen sail, And the creak of the icy halyardsStraining against the gale. Courage ! the captain trumpets, They are sending help from land! God bless the men of the coast-guard,And hold their lives in His hand ! THE LAND OF FIRE. 171 THE LAND OF FIRE.…

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