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It was the schooner Hesperus	A
That sailed the wintry sea	A
And the skipper had taken his little daughter	B
To bear him company	A
	-
Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax	A
Her cheeks like the dawn of day	C
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds	A
The ope in the month of May	C
	-
The skipper he stood beside the helm	D
His pipe was in his mouth	E
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow	F
The smoke now West now South	E
	-
Then up and spake an old sailor	B
Had sailed to the Spanish Main	G
I pray thee put into yonder port	H
For I fear a hurricane	G
	-
Last night the moon had a golden ring	I
And tonight no moon we see	A
The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe	J
And a scornful laugh laughed he	A
	-
Colder and louder blew the wind	K
A gale from the Northeast	L
The snow fell hissing in the brine	M
And the billows frothed like yeast	L
	-
Down came the storm and smote amain	M
The vessel in its strength	N
She shuddered and paused like a frighted steed	O
Then leaped her cable's length	N
	-
Come hither come hither my little daughter	B
And do not tremble so	F
For I can weather the roughest gale	P
That ever wind did blow	F
	-
He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat	Q
Against the stinging blast	R
He cut a rope from a broken spar	S
And bound her to the mast	R
	-
O father I hear the church bells ring	I
O say what may it be	A
Tis a fog bell on a rock bound coast	T
And he steered for the open sea	A
	-
O father I hear the sound of guns	A
O say what may it be	A
Some ship in distress that cannot live	U
In such an angry sea	A
	-
O father I see a gleaming light	V
O say what may it be	A
But the father answered never a word	W
A frozen corpse was he	A
	-
Lashed to the helm all stiff and stark	X
With his face turned to the skies	A
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow	F
On his fixed and glassy eyes	A
	-
Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed	Y
That saved she might be	A
And she thought of Christ who stilled the wave	Z
On the Lake of Galilee	A
	-
And fast through the midnight dark and drear	S
Through the whistling sleet and snow	F
Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept	A2
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe	F
	-
And ever the fitful gusts between	M
A sound came from the land	B2
It was the sound of the trampling surf	C2
On the rocks and the hard sea sand	B2
	-
The breakers were right beneath her bows	A
She drifted a weary wreck	D2
And a whooping billow swept the crew	S
Like icicles from her deck	D2
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She struck where the white and fleecy waves	A
Looked soft as carded wool	E2
But the cruel rocks they gored her side	F2
Like the horns of an angry bull	E2
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Her rattling shrouds all sheathed in ice	A
With the masts went by the board	G2
Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank	H2
Ho ho the breakers roared	G2
	-
At daybreak on the bleak sea beach	I2
A fisherman stood aghast	R
To see the form of a maiden fair	S
Lashed close to a drifting mast	R
	-
The salt sea was frozed on her breast	J2
The salt tears in her eyes	A
And he saw her hair like the brown sea weed	O
On the billows fall and rise	A
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Such was the wreck of the Hesperus	A
In the midnight and the snow	F
Christ save us all from a death like this	A
On the reef of Norman's Woe	F

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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