 | 1846 - 166 pages
...Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut'to pieces — Come, my hearts, be tstout and bold ! Plumb the well — the leak increases — Four feet water in the hold ! SLOW. While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn ; Alas! from hence... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree 's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces : Come, my hearts,...We for wives or children mourn ; Alas ! from hence there 's no retreating, Alas ! to them there 's no return. Still the leak is gaining on us : Both chain-pumps... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...leak increases,— Four feet water in the hold. SLOW. 'While o'er the ship wild waves are heating, We for wives or children mourn: Alas ! from hence there's no retreating. Alas 1 from hence there's no return. Still the leak is gaining on us, — Both chain-pumps ure choked helow.... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 424 pages
...feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out, — Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick ! the lanyards cut to pieces ; Come, my hearts,...well, the leak increases, Four feet water in the hold! 279 While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn ; Alas ! from hence... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...feet 'bove deck : — A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick, the lanyards cut to pieces; Come, my hearts,...o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives and children mourn ; Alas ! from hence there's no retreating, Alas ! to them there's no return ! Still... | |
 | 1853 - 456 pages
...feet 'bove'deck. A leak beneath the chest-tree fs sprung out, — Call all hands to clear the wreck 1 Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ; Come, my hearts,...¡—the leak increases, Four feet water in the hold I' While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives and children mourn ; Alas ! from hence... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1855 - 590 pages
...Come, my hearts, be stout and bold; Plumb the boiler, speed decreases, Four feet water getting cold. While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for...mourn ; Alas! from hence there's no retreating; Alas! to them there's no return. The fire is out—we've burst the bellows, The tinder-box is swamped below;... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...twelve feet Trove deck ; A leak beneath the chestrtree's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces : Come, my hearts,...wives or children mourn ; Alas! from hence there's no retreatmg, Alas! to them there's no return. Still the leak is gaining on us : Both chain-pumps are... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces : Come, my hearts,...hold ! While o'er the ship wild waves are beating Wo for wives or children mourn ; Alas! from hence there's no retreatmg, Alas! to them there's no return.... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1856 - 302 pages
...Come, my hearts, be stout and .bold ; Plumb the boiler, speed decreases, Four feet water getting cold. While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, "We for wives or children mourn ; Alas ! from hence there 's no retreating ; Alas ! to them there 's no return. The fire is out — we 've burst the bellows,... | |
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While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn : Alas ! from hence there's no retreating, Alas ! to them there's no return. Still the leak is gaining on us : Both chain-pumps are choak'd below. 
