Ballads of Brave Deeds By H. D. Rawnsley. With a Frontispiece and Preface by G. F. Watts |
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A River Tragedy
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A River Tragedy
Barmouth
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To the memory of the brave men Paton and Gray, who lost their lives in attempting to rescue others from drowning in the river Mawddach, 1st August 1894.
Old Caerdeon's brow is heather-bright;
From Dyfws far to Idris' purple chair
The heavens are cloudless blue, the noon is fair,
And every bay is filled with sapphire light.
Clouds fleck the heaven, and Cader fades from sight;
Dull grows the heather, sunless is the air;
The wind moans loud o'er shallows blank and bare,
And mournfully on Mawddach sinks the night.
From Dyfws far to Idris' purple chair
The heavens are cloudless blue, the noon is fair,
And every bay is filled with sapphire light.
Clouds fleck the heaven, and Cader fades from sight;
Dull grows the heather, sunless is the air;
The wind moans loud o'er shallows blank and bare,
And mournfully on Mawddach sinks the night.
Now Sorrow on from cape to headland wails;
And childless mothers weep along the shore
For those dear dead so silent on the sands;
But two bright stars have risen to set no more,
And Christ, the Saviour cries with wounded hands—
“Love that will lose its life alone avails.”
And childless mothers weep along the shore
For those dear dead so silent on the sands;
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And Christ, the Saviour cries with wounded hands—
“Love that will lose its life alone avails.”
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