Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Biscay, the Bay | | The Bay of Biscay O! | | Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) |
| | | LOUD roared the dreadful thunder, | |
| The rain a deluge showers; | |
| The clouds were rent asunder | |
| By lightning’s vivid powers! | |
| The night both drear and dark, | 5 |
| Our poor devoted bark, | |
| Till next day, there she lay, | |
| In the Bay of Biscay O! | |
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| Now dashed upon the billow, | |
| Her opening timbers creak, | 10 |
| Each fears a watery pillow, | |
| None stops the dreadful leak! | |
| To cling to slippery shrouds, | |
| Each breathless seaman crowds, | |
| As she lay, till the day, | 15 |
| In the Bay of Biscay O! | |
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| At length the wished-for morrow | |
| Broke through the hazy sky; | |
| Absorbed in silent sorrow, | |
| Each heaved a bitter sigh! | 20 |
| The dismal wreck to view, | |
| Struck horror to the crew | |
| As she lay, on that day, | |
| In the Bay of Biscay O! | |
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| Her yielding timbers sever, | 25 |
| Her pitchy seams are rent, | |
| When Heaven, all bounteous ever, | |
| Its boundless mercy sent; | |
| A sail in sight appears, | |
| We hail her with three cheers, | 30 |
| Now we sail, with the gale, | |
| From the Bay of Biscay O! | | | | |
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