THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.

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Her swaying, cracking masts and napping The curling breakers, with their mouths all sail. I white, Fasten their long fangcd teeth upon the The shrieking storm, the grinning, jagged crags, Tear at the sea - tossed, death - doomed, battered ship ; wreck, And drag her slowly down to lasting night, Where tangled seaweed creeps along her deck.

HAROLD EMBBY JONES, M.D., Mold..