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In Mather's Magnalia Christi	A
Of the old colonial time	B
May be found in prose the legend	C
That is here set down in rhyme	B
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A ship sailed from New Haven	D
And the keen and frosty airs	E
That filled her sails at parting	F
Were heavy with good men's prayers	E
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O Lord if it be thy pleasure	G
Thus prayed the old divine	H
To bury our friends in the ocean	D
Take them for they are thine	H
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But Master Lamberton muttered	I
And under his breath said he	A
This ship is so crank and walty	I
I fear our grave she will be	A
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And the ships that came from England	I
When the winter months were gone	J
Brought no tidings of this vessel	K
Nor of Master Lamberton	D
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This put the people to praying	F
That the Lord would let them hear	L
What in his greater wisdom	M
He had done with friends so dear	N
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And at last their prayers were answered	I
It was in the month of June	O
An hour before the sunset	I
Of a windy afternoon	O
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When steadily steering landward	I
A ship was seen below	P
And they knew it was Lamberton Master	G
Who sailed so long ago	P
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On she came with a cloud of canvas	Q
Right against the wind that blew	R
Until the eye could distinguish	S
The faces of the crew	R
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Then fell her straining topmasts	Q
Hanging tangled in the shrouds	Q
And her sails were loosened and lifted	I
And blown away like clouds	Q
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And the masts with all their rigging	F
Fell slowly one by one	D
And the hulk dilated and vanished	I
As a sea mist in the sun	D
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And the people who saw this marvel	K
Each said unto his friend	I
That this was the mould of their vessel	K
And thus her tragic end	I
	-
And the pastor of the village	T
Gave thanks to God in prayer	U
That to quiet their troubled spirits	Q
He had sent this Ship of Air	U

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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