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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 8 (search)
Book VIII: Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
(A. D. 1583.)
Eastward from Campobello Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed: Three days or more seaward he bore, Then, alas!
the land-wind failed. Alas!
the land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand: ‘Do not fear!
Heaven is as near,’ He said, ‘by water as by land!’ In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet of Death rose all around. The moon and the evening star Were hanging in the shrouds; Every mast, as it passed, Seemed to rake the passing clouds. They grappled with their prize, At midnight black and cold: As of a rock was the shock; Heavily the ground-swell rolled. Longfellow,
The death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
[Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from England for Newfoundland with a fleet of five vessels.
The largest of these (two hundred tons), fitted out by Sir Wa