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[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on the 13th of January, 1809, whilst giving help on the occasion of the breaking up of the ice on the Rhine, and the bursting of the dam of Cleverham.] THE DAM BREAKS DOWN, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS, THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS. "I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell, 'Tis not yet high, I can wade right well." "Remember us too! in what danger are we! Thy fellow-lodger, and children three! The trembling woman!--Thou'rt going away!" She bears the mother across the spray. "Quick! haste to the mound, and awhile there wait, I'll soon return, and all will be straight. The mound's close by, and safe from the wet; But take my goat too, my darling pet!" THE DAM DISSOLVES, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS, THE FLOODS DASH ON, THE WATER HOWLS. She places the mother safe on the shore; Fair Susan then turns tow'rd the flood once more. "Oh whither? Oh whither? The breadth fast grows, Both here and there the water o'erflows. Wilt venture, thou rash one, the billows to brave?" "THEY SHALL, AND THEY MUST BE PRESERVED FROM THE WAVE!" THE DAM DISAPPEARS, THE WATER GROWLS, LIKE OCEAN BILLOWS IT HEAVES AND HOWLS. Fair Susan returns by the way she had tried, The waves roar around, but she turns not aside; She reaches the mound, and the neighbour straight, But for her and the children, alas, too late! THE DAM DISAPPEAR'D,--LIKE A SEA IT GROWLS, ROUND THE HILLOCK IN CIRCLING EDDIES IT HOWLS. The foaming abyss gapes wide, and whirls round, The women and children are borne to the ground; The horn of the goat by one is seized fast, But, ah, they all must perish at last! Fair Susan still stands-there, untouch'd by the wave; The youngest, the noblest, oh, who now will save? Fair Susan still stands there, as bright as a star, But, alas! all hope, all assistance is far. The foaming waters around her roar, To save her, no bark pushes off from the shore. Her gaze once again she lifts up to Heaven, Then gently away by the flood she is driven. NO DAM, NO PLAIN! TO MARK THE PLACE SOME STRAGGLING TREES ARE THE ONLY TRACE. The rushing water the wilderness covers, Yet Susan's image still o'er it hovers.-- The water sinks, the plains re-appear. Fair Susan's lamented with many a tear,-- May he who refuses her story to tell, Be neglected in life and in death as well! 1809.
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