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90 LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOXI.
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I1st Europe. We Passed Over In Rapid Rev...
tlie morning it was proposed tliat the more courageous should try to land bswimmingand if possible get help . -A sailor with a
life a second -preserver with y dashed the aid into , of a the surf followed , and was but seen the to reach third the one shore of the ; spar ; ,
tion agonising passengers , it was hours , was agreed not passed so that , fortunate still the no passengers assistance and perished ; should so , in after the attempt some attempt delibera to . land Two - ,
each seated on a plank , grasping handles of rope , while a sailor swam behind . The wife of the late captain , aided by one of the brave crewreached , affcer much suffering , the surf-beaten sands .
Now came Margaret , ' s turn , but she refused to be separated from Ossoli and Angelino . While thus declining all persuasions ,
word was given from the deck that the life-boat had at length appeared ; the joyful news rekindled their flickering hopes , they
might yet be saved , all saved together ; but to the experienced eyes attemp of t being the sailors made it to too launch soon or became man her evident . The last that chance there was of aid no
from shore was then utterly gone ; they must rely on their own strength for or alread perish ; the and tide if had ever they turned were and to it esc was ape , lain the time that _hadf the p
" come wreck , could not y hold together another , flood . In tliis emergency the once commanding more appealed officer to , Margaret who until to now make had her remained " escape , declaring at his post he ,
did not feel free to sacrifice the lives of the crew , nor to throw away his own . from her
But as before Margaret refused decisively to be parted husband and childThe order was then given to " save
them-. selves" and all but four of the crew jumped over , who , together with their , commanderreached the shore safely . It was now past
threethe tide was rising , , and the gale swelled once more to its former , violence the remnant of the barque was fast yielding to the
little resistless band waves were ; ; driven the fatal to the moment deck drew where swiftl they y clustered nigh ; the roun hel d pless the
mother foremast husband ; a heavy child sea struck are the t into forecastle , their , watery and the grave foremast , there falls and ; swep
tlius to , end their , twelve hours communion face to face with death ! All hour was mi over ht come ; the for prayer all if was it mu granted st come " for that one God . " willing , the l as . ¦ t ¦¦
Uprose g the quiet morning , and there in the glittering sunshine , rocking strokes of gentl the y shore in the , the sw battered ell , lay hull within of the what _Elizabeth seemed , a dozen
oar" Comes Oh , heaven too ne 1 ar to his think home man . " ever treasures It was a which touching reached coincidence the shore that was the the only lifeless one of form Margaret of her ' s
, child . For herself she still lies with her husband , clown many a fathom in the fathomless deep , waiting for the great resurrection
morn when the sea shall give up the dead !
90 Life Of Margaret Fuller Ossoxi.
90 LIFE OF MARGARET _FULLER OSSOXI _.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/18/
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