Steve Doyle

Last Goodbye

He waved to his wife
On her little boat of life
As she drifted, crying, into the night.

He stood on the deck
As it began to lift.
He waved to his wife
And went down with the ship.

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The 'Berg

Cut from the coast of Greenland
The 'Berg floats around Baffin Bay
A towering mass of ice and snow
Set loose one September day.

The 'Berg travels north around the bay
Turning at Lancaster Sound
Melting slowly as it moves
Through Davis Straight, to the ocean bound.

Run aground at Cape Haven
On its way to Labrador
The glacier waits to be freed by the tide
And travel south once more.

Aground again at Cape Harrison
The 'Berg stays quite a while
Until the Labrador Current catches it
And sends it toward Newfoundland Isle.

Around the edges of the Grand Banks
The 'Berg heads toward the Gulf
And a fateful night in the North Atlantic
On the fourteenth of April, 1912.

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