New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-28
THE TRIBUNE.
THE WHITE soUALL

From n Journey jrpM SoTneW 70 SoHo'
By Ma. TtTMAasH.
Or deck, beneath the awning.
doing lay and yawning
I, was the grey of dewning,
Ere ye; the sun arose;
And above the tunnels roaring,
And the fi,ful winds deploring
/ heard the cabin snoring
With universal nose.
I could hear the passengers snort!ng,
I envied their disporting,
Vainly was counting
The pleasure Of dozc.
So lay and wondered why hgn.
Came mo-, and watched the twilight
And The el;nner of the skyiight'
That sbot across the deck;
IA 49,, b;,oacIc pale and steady
And the daIl glimpse Of the deadeye'
And the sparks Ia hery EDDY
That whirled from the chimney neck
In our jov;al floating prison
There was sleep from fore 10 m'zen'
And never q star had risen
The hazy SKY TO speck.
Strange company we harbored
We hundred Jews 20 iarbosrd.
Unvashed, uncombe6, pnbarbered
Jews black, and brown. and grey;
With terror ii would seize ye.
And make your souls uneasy,
To see those Rabbis greasy
Who did nought BIZ, scratch and pray
Their dirty children puking,
Their dirty saucepeus cooking,
Their dirty fingers hooking
Their swarming feas away.
To starbosrd Turks aud Greeks were,
whiskered, and brown their cheeks we'e,
Enormous wide their breeks were,
Their pipes did puff Away
Each on his mat allotted.
In silence smoked and squa,,ed,
Whilst round theic children trotted
In pretty, pleasant play.
He can't bat smile who traces
The smiles on those brown faces
And the pretty prgttling graces
or those small heaihens gay
And 60 the hours kept tolling,
And through the ocean rolling,
Went the brave Iberia bowling
Before the break of day
When A SQUALL upon sudden
Came Ger the waters scudding
And the clouds began 10 gather,
And the sea was lashed 10 iather,
And the lowering thunder gTumoiedl
And the lightning Jumped and tumoied
And the ship, and all the ocean,
Woke mp 10 wild connection.
Then the wind set up u bowling
And the poodle-dog yowling,
And the cocks began Growing,
And the old COW raieed lowing,
As she heard the tempest blowing
And fowls aud geese did oackle,
And the cordage and the tackle
Began TO shrek and cracklei
And the spray dashed Ger the tunnels
And down the deck in runneis
And The rushing water soaks alir
From the seamen in The TO ksal,
To the stokers, whose black faces
Peep out Of their bed places;
And the captain he was bawling
And the sailors pulling, bauling
And the quarter deck tarpauliDg
Was shivered in the squaling
And the passengers awaken,
Most pitifully shaken;
And the steward jumps up and hastens
For the necessary basins.
Then the Greeksthey groaned and quivered,
And they kuelt, and moaned. and shiyered'
As the plunging waters met them,
And splashed and overset them
Aud they call in their emergence
Upon countless saints and virgins:
And their marrowbones arc Bonded,
And they think the world is ended
And the Turkish women for'ard
Were frightened and behorror'd
And, shrieking aud bewildering
The mothers clutched their children
The rnen sung, Allah 1lleh
Mashallah Bismiah! !"
As the warning waters doused them;
And splashed than aud soused them.
And they ca led uDun the Prophet
And thought but little of L.
Then oil the fleas in .Jewry
Jumped up and Bit like fury;
And the progeny of Jacob
Did on the main deck wake up
Il wot those greasy Rabbins
Would never pay for cabns;l
And each man moaned and jabbered IL
His filthy Jewish gebcrdine,
In woe end lamentation,
And bowling consteruation.
And the spashing water drenches
Their dirty brats and wenches;
And they crawl from bales and benches,
In hundred thousand stenches.
This was the White Squall famous,
Which latterly o'crcame us,
And which all will well remember
On the 2sth September:
When Prussiau captain Of Lancers
Those tight'laced, WHISPERED prancers
Came on the deck astonshed,
BY that wild squat admonshed,
And wondering cried, F." Potz tausend.
VIE list der Sturm jetzt brausend
And looked al Captain Lewis,
Who calmly stood and blew his
Cigar in NIL the hustle,
And scorned the tempest's tussc,
And oft we We thought hereafter
How he beat the storm 10 laughter.
For well he knew his vessel
With that vain wi ind could wrestle,
And when wreck we thought her,
And doomed ourselves to slaughter,
Flow gaily he fought her,
And through the hubhub brought her,
And, ~ the temples, caught her, WATER ="
Cried, "GSoRoE SOME BRANDY ASp
And when, its force expended,
The harmless storm was ended
And. as the sunrise splendid
Came bushing DER the sea
thought! "a day was breaking
My little girls were waking.
And smiling, and making
a prayer at home for me.
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