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The crashing waves pitched schooner steep on side,
and valiant lady fain did make self right.
With tattered sails that stole her former pride,
avast - against the seas her mighty fight!
A shrieking hurrican with madness wails,
and sailors high in rigging reef the sheets.
With struggle mate mans wheel whose chore entails:
to keep GulfQueen from shoals where river meets.
There shining bright through raging rain and night,
a beacon light with message straight and bold:
"The shoals are close to me beneath this site,
beware of hurtful shale that seeks to hold."
Thus faithful sentry saves ship - twenty lives.
Returns men safe again to thankful wives.

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