Charles Henry Webb

“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shoreThan ever were lost at sea.”

“I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach;But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech.Hold to thine earAnd plain thou'lt hearTales of ships.”

“Friends I have had both old and young,And ale we drank and songs we sung:Enough you know when this is said,That, one and all, they died in bed.In bed they died and I’ll not goWhere all my friends have perished so.”