George Malcolm Laws - Lord Franklin

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It was homeward bound one night on the deep,
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Swinging in my hammock, I fell asleep.
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I dreamed a dream and I thought it true,
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Concerning Franklin,


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And his gallant crew.
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With a hundred sailors he sailed away
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The frozen ocean in the month of may
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To seek a passage around the pole
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Where we poor sailors ,


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sometimes have to go.
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Through cruel hardships they vainly strove;
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Their ship on mountains of ice was drove;
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Only the Indian with his skin canoe,
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Was the only one,


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that ever came through.
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In Baffin bay where the whale-fish blow
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The fate of Franklin, no man may know;
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The fate of Franklin, no tongue may tell,
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Where Franklin along,


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with his sailors does dwell.
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And now my burden, it brings me pain;
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For my long, lost Franklin I would cross the main;
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Ten thousand guineas I would freely give
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To say on Earth,

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that my Franklin does live..