And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left.
His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast. Could catch the sound no more: For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank.
No poet wept him; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear
Movie about getting stranded in open water after being left but a scuba excursion. Has happened in the Caribbean and off Australia I am fairly sure.
ReplyDeleteWash'd headlong from on board,
ReplyDeleteOf friends, of hope, of all bereft,
His floating home for ever left.
His comrades, who before
Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast.
Could catch the sound no more:
For then, by toil subdued, he drank
The stifling wave, and then he sank.
No poet wept him; but the page
Of narrative sincere,
That tells his name, his worth, his age,
Is wet with Anson's tear
-William Cowper, "The Castaway"