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W. V. Her Book and Various Verses

By William Canton ... With Two Illustrations by C. E. Brock

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In the smother and the roar
Of a very hell of waters—hard and fast—
She shook beneath the stroke
Of each billow as it broke,
And the clouds of spray were mingled with the clouds of swirling smoke
As the blazing barrels bellowed in the blast!