So I lay, and wondered why light Came not, and watched the twilight6 And the glimmer7 of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery8 eddy9, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial10 floating prison There was sleep from fore11 to mizen, And never a star had risen The hazy12 sky to speck13.
Strange company we harboured; We’d a hundred Jews to larboard, Unwashed, uncombed, uubarbered, Jews black, and brown, and grey; With terror it would seize ye, And make your souls uneasy, To see those Rabbis greasy14, Who did nought15 but scratch and pray: Their dirty children pucking, Their dirty saucepans cooking, Their dirty fingers hooking Their swarming16 fleas17 away.
To starboard Turks and Greeks were, Whiskered, and brown their cheeks were, Enormous wide their breeks were, Their pipes did puff18 alway; Each on his mat allotted19, In silence smoked and squatted20, Whilst round their children trotted21 In pretty, pleasant play. He can’t but smile who traces The smiles on those brown faces, And the pretty prattling22 graces Of those small heathens gay.
And so the hours kept tolling23, And through the ocean rolling, Went the brave “Iberia” bowling24 Before the break of day — When a SQUALL upon a sudden Came o’er the waters scudding25; And the clouds began to gather, And the sea was lashed26 to lather27, And the lowering thunder grumbled28, And the lightning jumped and tumbled, And the ship, and all the ocean, Woke up in wild commotion29.
Then the wind set up a howling, And the poodle-dog a yowling, And the cocks began a crowing, And the old cow raised a lowing, As she heard the tempest blowing; And fowls30 and geese did cackle, And the cordage and the tackle Began to shriek31 and crackle; And the spray dashed o’er the funnels32, And down the deck in runnels; And the rushing water soaks all, From the seamen33 in the fo’ksal To the stokers, whose black faces Peer out of their bed-places; And the captain he was bawling34, And the sailors pulling, hauling; And the quarter-deck tarpauling Was shivered in the squalling; And the passengers awaken35, Most pitifully shaken; And the steward36 jumps up, and hastens For the necessary basins.
Then the Greeks they groaned37 and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging38 waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence39 Upon countless40 saints and virgins41; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended.
And the Turkish women for’ard Were frightened and behorror’d; And, shrieking42 and bewildering, The mothers clutched their children; The men sung, “Allah Illah! Mashallah Bismillah!”
As the warring waters doused43 them, And splashed them and soused them; And they called upon the Prophet, And thought but little of it.
Then all the fleas in Jewry Jumped up and bit like fury; And the progeny44 of Jacob Did on the main-deck wake up (I wot those greasy Rabbins Would never pay for cabins); And each man moaned and jabbered45 in His filthy46 Jewish gaberdine, In woe47 and lamentation48, And howling consternation49. And the splashing water drenches50 Their dirty brats51 and wenches; And they crawl from bales and benches, In a hundred thousand stenches.
This was the White Squall famous Which latterly o’ercame us, And which all will well remember On the 28th September: When a Prussian Captain of Lancers (Those tight-laced, whiskered prancers) Came on the deck astonished, By that wild squall admonished52, And wondering cried, “Potztausend! Wie ist der Sturm jetzt brausend!” And looked at Captain Lewis, Who calmly stood and blew his Cigar in all the bustle53, And scorned the tempest’s tussle54. And oft we’ve thought thereafter How he beat the storm to laughter; For well he knew his vessel55 With that vain wind could wrestle56; And when a wreck57 we thought her And doomed58 ourselves to slaughter59, How gaily60 he fought her, And through the hubbub61 brought her, And, as the tempest caught her, Cried, “GEORGE! SOME BRANDY-AND-WATER!”
And when, its force expended62, The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o’er the sea; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me.
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