An Excuse To Post Some Wallace Tripp

HE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle’s wreck Shone round him o’er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father’s word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud — "Say, father, say, If yet my task is done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his so...