Quote#Death
Again she plunges! hark! a second shock
Quote byWilliam Falconer · 1732–1769
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Shipwreck (1762), Canto III, line 642..
English (original)
Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak: Ah Heaven!—behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.
— William Falconer
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The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
But see! the pains begin to fly; Tho’ Venus bled she could not die: See the new phœnix point her eyes, And lovelier from her ashes rise.
Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;