Look at my knees,
That island rising from the steamy seas!
The candles a tall lightship; my two hands
Are boats and barges anchored to the sands,
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Wrecked! And, to be drowned. A sad note of the sailors. Nice work.
It would be most unpleasant to be drowned. It nearly happened to me as a child. All too often ' an iron steamer's wrecked'.