The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-15
ynn LAST OF THE NAnwnAta
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC smp.

The STORY OF An AhSllA SAtAi'
''Av,ay, III tell you, shipmates,
II YOU care W hear the tale,
How myself ana the royal yaru hione
Were left Of the old N0IWhale,
"a st,uter snip vas never launched
OF ell the clyde built wlGle,s,
And FORTY years of q lie at sea
Haven't matched her crowd OF sailors
PIoR 81 men IN were, ali young ana strong
Ara used ~ the widest seSa,
From } ouegal and tho .eotush coast
And the rugged HeOridts.
Such men as women cling to, males,
Like ivy round their liyesi
And the DAY we iod the quays were llneu
" ith weeping mothers atd wives.
They cred and prayed, we gave en- cheer'
In the thoughtless wAv - meh,
God help theS,, suipma hlriy years
They've waited and pay "a since then.
ave sailed 10 the North, aad mind it well,
The pity we Felt and pIidf
When we fightod the cliffs oil LaUtauor,
From tn sen where huisO1 dleu
We talked Of ships that never came back,
And Whole the great noes passed, ~.
Like ghosts IA the night, zach EuOllit psak
Like u great wnr-f igate's mast
Twas said that Il ship was frozen up
Ia the i"ebeig's awful breGsi,
The clear ios holding the salor's face
as he lay In his mortal rest.
And pye thought since then, wh'h tAe shipf
came home,
Thqt vi ed for the Frsuk in baud,
A mistake was made In tbs reckoning
That looked for the crews on land,
'They' re floating etill,' I've said 10 myself,
And Sir John hRl found thegohl;
The Erebug aud tho Terror, mates,
Are ictburgs up Mt the Fole!'
"We sailed due north, to B0nlns' bay,
And crulsed through weeks OF lghtj
Twas always day, and we slept by the bell,
nd In fnr thp nll NIGHT
And the b es'cd darkness, If, hind,
Like a curtaiJ round thu bed;
But q month lragyed on, Ike AZ afternoon,
With this wheeling snn O'erhead.
We found the whales were farther still
The farther north we sailed,
Aiong the CIR enland glacier coast,
The boldssl might have quailed
such shapes old Aeep us Cumphny
Ne all In all that a'a,
But thick as shins In Hcrsoy's tide
Inc utrhs mo ud aWiuiy
Within the currents mort award stream;
hut or the long d sy's close
We found the VIII les and filed the ship
Amid the friendly floss,
''rhcn came rest; the day was blown
Like u cloud before the night;
In the south the SUI went reilly down.
In the north re % another light,
Neither sun nor moon, but n shooting dawn,
That slvered our lonely way
10 80 mad we 'ai ed in belt Of sloam,
llp1n u her side, day,
Th- nOrth wind smOt the sea TO death;
The paAs ice closed Ms round
ny 80 +" ',u'0 7t,Va , "a ''iS 'O' "V'''
rs lNst Y (. g ~ eh, Vuu'''
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10 open the way toward home.
"spring came At last, the lcs.ticlds gronned
Like iiyiug thing in paint
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~ ,n' %, ',,r stSt''1 al" '"unus
flang hare and mere AZ tle ocean VIII,
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r, nv ~ r ,l Z, " itn ~, neii ~, Wuo
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win crashing ran ON tne glacial wall,
Az Sheur Us 1n nn 'pssSl l,o5
Acrhnihe t"ll anu ashlNtIedyaTui
Thnh sns rS's. w. on'u s,, WE past,
AheoIaVe ll,ia sprahg 10 tuulehulhg W0rk,
,Alor' there, one with ready kntic-
Out loose mat royal y&l|
lspreng To the rlgglnGi Young was,
Anu pIouu 70 ne hrst 10 drlei
nm, me yuru swung ltee, anu ! turned 70 gaze
toMnru lne opsil era, ger me liold OF hHze
Anu my nehrs ,eW eOldi rs IL frozen though,
az tne moving shape that mat my vieV-
oCnrist WHAT u slBht WAS there
hOoVe ths log, az 1 husgsd the yard,
saw Inat an Iceberg lay
Ns,s IKE mountain, clo,ipS iasf-
not Cables length away!
could not see through the sheet mist
p, Lhsi covered an below,
bnt hesfu their chesry voices still,
r, anu ~. scles s is, 70 LEY Them know
Inc cry went down, and Inc Skipper hailed,
bat before me word could come
IL dleu IN MS throat, and knew they saw "a