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13830	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	The Wreck of the Hesperus			.txt	text/plain	932	105	91	from memory when the poet Longfellow chose the spot as a background than this ballad in the quaint, old-time style, with its nervous energy and sonorous rhythm, wherein one hears the trampling of waves and daring, scornful skipper, and the gentle, devout maiden, in the midst of THIS EDITION OF THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS IS PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL [Illustration: The Wreck of the Hesperus] And the skipper had taken his little daughter The skipper he stood beside the helm, The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And the billows frothed like yeast. Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept On the rocks and the hard sea-sand, Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, The salt sea was frozen on her breast, And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow!	./cache/13830.txt	./txt/13830.txt