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Marlborough Press, Volume XXVI, Issue 1574, 4 March 1886, Page 3

Editor’s Arm Chair.

“THE CAPTAIN ON THE BRIDGE.” The Deccan, with a thousand soldiers a-board, and ■ several women, twice put back to port—first through the fury of a “ living gale,” and next to advise the distress of the four-mast “ Palgrave.” The captain was on the bridge 40 hours. — Daily paper. . He kept the bridge for forty hours, And fought the British seamen's fight; Against the waves, and tempests’ powers. He kept the bridge—through day and night. He saved a thousand fighting meu For England's whene’er it came— He fought on Englands ship, as when Horatius kept the Bridge for Homo. The Furies of the Winds in bands ftemorseless, cruel warfare waged ; The living floating town withstands The living gale that round it raged. But on the bridge undoubted stood The captain with his heart of gold, And fought his foes of wind and flood As fought tho.bvavest men of old. And England, ready far from land, ' When wake 3 the wind and falls the light A thousand will take their stand, And bridge thy thousand ships to night. Eun the brave old flags up thy mast, But give to modem days their due, And England Now, as in the Past, Shall ever to itself be true. H. Kauts-Jacksox.