Titanic--Fare Thee Well Contest--Queen of the Seas
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Within the dungeon of the deep
there sleeps the queen of all the seas,
who swung assurance at the sweep
of ghostly peril on the breeze,
and dared the elements to ply
their angered forces at her head
that she might battle and defy—
and lo! one battle left her dead.
With all the graces of a royal court
she slipped the tethers of the tide
and glided far away from the port
that bound her power and her pride
and with the promise of her youth
and all the future in her sway
she strode in triumph over truth
and tossed the danger with the spray.
Within her heart was greatness and gaiety
her sinews stretched in unfathomable length
the very heavens seemed to play
beside the pulses of her strength!
and through the day and through the night
of billowed pleasure undismayed,
her throb of fervor set to flight
came the toll of fear, and fear obeyed.
While the miracle of man
flew her flag in majesty,
came the muffled knell of doom
the flash of fate, the riven ship
the plunge into the gulf of gloom
and thus she ends her watery kinship
a thousand lives entombed are
beneath the wonders of the wave
a thousand spirits vanished far
beyond the waters of the grave;
and sunken in that solemn keep
lies the graveyard of a vessel vast
where only weeds and fish creep
among the portholes of the past.
Copyright © Sara Etgen-Baker | Year Posted 2024
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