The Great Frozen Sea a Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert During T
The Great Frozen Sea a Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert During T
Albert Hastings Markham
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Not very long ago, On the six-foot floe Of the palaeocrystic sea, Two ships did riae, Mid the crashing of the tide — The Alert and the Discovery, The sun never shone The gallant crews upon For a hundred and forty -two days| But no darkness and no hummocks Their merry hearts could flummox : So they set to work and acted plays. 187G. ] SLEDGING CHORUS. 217 There was music and song To help the hours along, Brought forth from the good ship's store j And each man did his best To amuse and cheer the ...rest : And "nobody can't do more. " AiE — " The Shannon and the Chescupeake. '* Here's a health to Marco Polo * — May he reach his northern goal, oh ! And advance the flag of England into realms unknown I May the Challenger f be there, All comers bold to dare, And Victoria t he victorious in the frozen zone I May our Poppie § be in sight, With her colours streaming bright, And the Bulldog \\ tug on merrily from strand to strand I And the Alexandra ^ brave See our banner proudly wave O'er the highest cliffs and summits of the northernmost land I Here's a health to Hercules, ** Whom the autumn blast did freeze, And all our gallant fellows whom the frost laid low!
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