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The Times, the Telegraph, and Other Poems

The Times, the Telegraph, and Other Poems

Saxe, John Godfrey

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General World History

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ISBN10: 0217109586
ISBN13: 9780217109581
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CYBUS AND THE TELEGBAPH. A BALLAD. Come, listen all unto my song, It is no silly fable; 'Tis all about the mighty cord They call the Atlantic Cable. Bold Cyrus Field, he said, says he, I have a pretty notion That I can run a telegraph Across the Atlantic Ocean. Then all the people laughed, and said, They'd like to see him do it; He might get half-seas-over, but ' He never could go through it; To carry out his foolish plan He never would be able; He might as well go hang himself With his Atlantic Cable ! But Cyrus was a valiant man, A fellow of decision; And heeded not their mocking words, Their laughter and derision. A secret. Cyrus Field is here referred to. He was, is, and ever will be on tlie staff of the Telegraph (Atlantic). Twice did his bravest efforts fail, And yet his mind was stable; He wa'n't the man to break his heart Because he broke his cable. ' Once more, my gallant boys!' he cried; ' Three times !?you know the fable, ? (I'll make it thirty, ' muttered he, ' But I will lay the cable!') Once more they tried, ?hurrah ! hurrah ! What means this great commotion ? The Lord be praised ! the cable's laid Across the Atlantic Ocean ! Lpnd ring the bells?for, flashing through Six hundred leagues of water, Old Mother England's benison Salutes her eldest daughter.' O'er all the land the tidings speed, And soon, in every nation, They'll hear about the cable with Profoundest admiration! Now long live James, and long live Vic., And long live gallant Cyrus; And may his courage, faith, and zeal With emulation fire us; And may we honour evermoro The manly, bold, and stable; And tell our sons, to make them brave, How Cyrus laid the cable ! THE COCKNEY. It was iu .

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