BENEATH the low-hung night cloud That raked her splintering mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the horror round about ? A voice came down... Poetic reader, for the use of schools - Page 211by Poetic reader - 1881Full view - About this book
| 1872 - 812 pages
...mast, The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal gun pealed out ; Dear God ! was that thy answer From the...! ship ahoy !" its cry ; "Our stout Three Bells of Glatgow, Shall stand till daylight by !" Hour after hour crept slowly. Yet on the heaving swells Tested... | |
| American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the horror round about ? • Many readers will remember Captain Leighton of the English ship Three Bells, who some years ago... | |
| 1872 - 976 pages
...all planned out by God. May we submit to His baptism in the sea and in the cloud. GEOEOE R. HOWAT, BA THE THREE BELLS.» BENEATH the low-hung night cloud...Three Bells of Glasgow Shall stand till daylight by ! " * Many readers will remember Captain Leighton of the English ship Three Bells, who some years ago... | |
| Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...mast, The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained iast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out; Dear God ! was that thy answer, From the...horror round about ? A voice came down the wild wind, — " 1 lo ! ship ahoy ! " its cry : "Our stout Three" Bells of Glasgow Shall stand till daylight by!"... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 254 pages
...mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. n. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the horror round about? m. A voice came down the wild wind, " Ho ! ship ahoy ! " its cry : "Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 254 pages
...The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. ii. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God! was that thy answer From the horror round about? m. A voice came down the wild wind, "Ho! ship ahoy!" its cry: "Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow Shall... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the...its cry : " Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow Shall lay till daylight by ! " Hour after hour crept slowly, Yet on the heaving swells Tossed up and down... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...mast The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the...its cry : " Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow Shall lay till daylight by ! " Hour after hour crept slowly, Yet on the heaving swells Tossed up and down... | |
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 248 pages
...mast, The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Her signal guns pealed out. Dear God ! was that thy answer From the...cry : " Our stout ' Three Bells ' of Glasgow Shall lay till daylight by ! " Hour after hour crept slowly, Yet on the heaving swells Tossed up and down... | |
| Alvah C. Beecher - Elocution - 1874 - 234 pages
...mast, The good ship settled slowly, The cruel leak gained fast. Over the awful ocean Uer signal guns pealed out. .Dear God ! was that thy answer From the horror round about T A voice came down the wild wind, "Ho ! ship ahoy !" its cry; *' Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow... | |
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