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Title: The Titanic Disaster Poem

Author: J. H. McKenzie

Release Date: April 23, 2010 [EBook #32099]

Language: English

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THE
TITANIC DISASTER
POEM

By J. H. McKenzie

Guthrie, Oklahoma

This event took place on the night of April 14, 1912 with the
Titanic on her First voyage in the Atlantic Ocean bound for
New York.

Co-Operative Pub. Co., Guthrie, Okla.

Copyrighted, May 1912.

The Titanic Disaster Poem

REVISED

I.

On the cold and dark Atlantic,
The night was growing late
Steamed the maiden ship Titanic
Crowded with human freight
She was valued at Ten Million,
The grandest ever roamed the seas,
Fitted complete to swim the ocean
When the rolling billows freeze.

II.

She bade farewell to England
All dressed in robes of white
Going out to plow the briny deep,
And was on her western flight;
She was now so swiftly gliding
In L Fifty and Fourteen
When the watchman viewed the monster
Just a mile from it, 'Twas seen.

III.

Warned by a German vessel
Of an enemy just ahead
Of an Iceberg, that sea monster,
That which the seamen dread.
On steamed this great Titanic;
She was in her swiftest flight;
She was trying to break the record,
On that fearful, fearful night.

IV.

Oh; she was plowing the Ocean
For speed not known before,
But alas, she struck asunder
To last for ever more,
A wireless message began to spread
Throughout the mighty deep, it said,
"We have struck