Poems of Nature (Whittier)/Illustration 7
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The Decoy Beacon.
Down swooped the wreckers, like birds of prey,
Tearing the heart of the ship away,
And the dead had never a word to say.
Tearing the heart of the ship away,
And the dead had never a word to say.
And then, with ghastly shimmer and shine,
Over the rocks and the seething brine,
They burned the wreck of the Palatine.
The Palatine.
Over the rocks and the seething brine,
They burned the wreck of the Palatine.
The Palatine.