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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5571 Light of Taurus 31 July 2006 Light of yonder Taurus a dragon to the daily bread Where life has an opening or was that the final door to shut For who was in charge were rules those to partake As to the Titanic, upon an endangered wind From the shores of Halifax and those ghostly cries Ever closer, ever louder to hear neither deafness does stir A night never to forget the Mayflower symbolic This province of Canada and that of Halifax her Canadian home On 10 April 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to New York City, USA. At the time, the Titanic was considered the largest and most luxurious ship ever built (and unsinkable). At 11:40 PM on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The loss of the liner Titanic on her maiden voyage was also to involve the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia, located on the eastern coast of Canada. With Halifax, playing an important role during the tragedy’s aftermath and becoming the final resting place of many of her unclaimed victims. Where once victims were returned to Halifax, a temporary morgue was set up in the Mayflower Curling Rink. When following the Titanic tragedy, 150 Titanic victims were buried in Halifax cemeteries. Nineteen in the Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, 10 in the Baron de Hirsch Jewish Cemetery, and 121 are in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Of these, 44 remained unidentified. © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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brother stone Junior Member
since 2006-01-25
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brother stone is very fast and his deck chairs are all straight in lines, almost. but he goes the southern way even if it's longer. |
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