StoryTitle("caps", "The Last Broadside")?>
PoemStart()?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall we give them a broadside, my boys, as she goes?", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall we send yet another to tell,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In iron-tongued words, to Columbia's foes, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How bravely her sons say Farewell?", "")?>
PagePoem(58, "L0", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay! what though we sink 'neath the turbulent wave, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'Tis with DUTY and RIGHT at the helm;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And over the form should the fierce waters rave, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No tide can the spirit o'erwhelm!", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For swift o'er the billows of Charon's dark stream ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll pass to the immortal shore,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the waters of life in brilliancy beam, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the pure float in peace evermore.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Shall we give them a broadside once more, my brave men", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Ay! Ay!\" was the full, earnest cry;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"A broadside! A broadside! we'll give them again!", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then for God and the Right nobly die!\"", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Haste! Haste!\"—for amid all that battling din ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comes a gurgling sound fraught with fear,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As swift flowing waters pour rushingly in; ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Up! up! till her port-holes they near.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No blanching!—no faltering!—still fearless all seem;", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each man firm to duty doth bide;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A flash! and a \"broadside!\" a shout! a careen!", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the Cumberland sinks 'neath the tide!", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The \"Star-Spangled Banner\" still floating above!", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As a beacon upon the dark wave!", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our Ensign of Glory, proud streaming in love, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the tomb of the \"Loyal and Brave!\"", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bold hearts! mighty spirits! \"tried gold\" of our land!", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A halo of glory your meed!", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All honored, the noble-souled Cumberland band!", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So true in Columbia's need!", "")?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Elizabeth T. P. Beach.")?>
PoemEnd()?>