Poems of Nature (Whittier)/Illustration 7

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The Decoy Beacon.

Down swooped the wreckers, like birds of prey,Tearing the heart of the ship away,And the dead had never a word to say.
And then, with ghastly shimmer and shine,Over the rocks and the seething brine,They burned the wreck of the Palatine.The Palatine. 
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