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[aid] => mick
[title] => TWO COURAGEOUS WOMAN
[time] => 2003-12-03 00:48:07
[hometext] => I have wanted to write a poem about a lighthouse for over 50 years, I finally made it! Enjoy.....
[bodytext] =>  December 22, 1839 was a fair sunny day on the New England coast. The keeper of the lighthouse took his wife shopping, no fear of leaving his post. While they were gone, a tremendous wind began to blow. The waves would grow, they became ominous, beating viciously against the rocks and, the lighthouse never did glow, because the keeper could not show. Near midnight, the ship "Pocahontas," struggled to find the harbor which was usually signaled by the lighthouse round the bend. The ship could not find its way, and the whole crew, went down with the ship to its end! Lighthouse historian D. Alan Stevenson states, "Between 1798 and 1833 the average 550 ships lost, increased to 800, more lighthouses were needed, with better light! Two very courageous woman saved many lives, because they had the courage to do what was right! Grace Darling (1815-43) risked her life to save nine survivors by her father's lighthouse off the coast of northeast England. She insisted that her father row her to the wreckage unplanned. They rowed through perilous seas to save them, and pulled them into their dingy, and cared for them through all the mayhem! A memorial has been erected on the site In honor of this women and her daring insight! Abigail Burgess was only 17 and lived with her father, a lighthouse keeper off the coast of Maine, named "Mathinicus Rock." On January 1857, her father had to leave. He was caught in a storm and could not even walk. Abigail took charge immediately, while tending her sick mother, and her three siblings, This is what she writes: "Though at times, exhausted with my labors (keeping a light before the advent of electricity was hard work) not once did the light fail." During this time they ran out of supplies, and their daily allowance of one egg a day, plus one cup of cornmeal helped them prevail! Lighthouses are built purposely on a Rocky shore. Whipping waves, and tons of water slam and roar. A solid foundation is necessary for them to remain. So, too, must our constitution be a rocky domain. Life constantly shocks us with strife, stress, losses, and controversial struggles of morass. We have to have strong foundations, no sand, or we will crumble, unable to stand! Like the fine example these two fine ladies set for us, we live in an indecisive world. Will we allow the waves that throw us up, and then slam us down, to disable us not to fend? Or, wil we be like the lighthouses mentioned here? Always glowing, growing, knowing, that no matter how high the wave, or it's slamming impact! We too, can be hardy lighthouses, not only helping ourselves, but also pulling another from the tumultuous sea of life, saving maybe just one, from another horrible storm's attack! Created by Cheri Cam LeBren Dec 2, 2002 Be courageous, help another! [comments] => 7 [counter] => 581 [topic] => 19 [informant] => lovingcritters [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems )
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