"The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud though childlike form."
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783-1835), British poet. Casabianca (l. 1-8). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company. |
"There came a burst of thunder sound;
The boy—Oh! where was he?
MAsk of the winds, that far around
With fragments strewed the sea;—"
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783-1835), British poet. Casabianca (l. 32-35). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company. |
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