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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), The Eagle of the sea. (search)
have a charm for me. We may go down, or strike a reef, But the last anguish will be brief; The resurrection trump from sleep Can wake the dead ones of the Deep. Oh! what is Greenwood to the sea, A grander, nobler cemetery; On its vast bottom lie the brave Entombed in many a coral cave. Let the storm whistle through the shrouds, While over us are angry clouds; Staunch is the bark that bears us o'er Rough waters to a brighter shore. Capped is the mountain surge with foam, And grand is Father Neptune's home; I wish his shell by dolphins drawn Could bear the fiery poet on. But canvas-winged, and cable-reined Our ship her glory has maintained, While shouts aloud the sailor boy, She walks the waters in her joy. At last her toughened bones may bleach On ocean's gray and wreck-strewn beach; But what a nobler fate could be For the proud Eagle of the sea. Let the wind howl, and roar the surge, Aquila will her pathway urge, And time, with swift, but easy motion, Keep to the pulse-beat of