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FRANKLIN THE BRAVE or LADY FRANKLIN'S LAMENT 2 We were homeward bound all in the deep Alone in my hammock I fell asleep And I dreamt a dream that I thought was true Concerning Franklin and his bold crew As I was musing on yon foreign shore I heard a lady and she did deplore She wept aloud and to me did say "Oh, my loving husband, he stops long away "It is seven long years since three ships of fame Caused my dear husband to cross the main And a hundred seamen of courage stout A northwest passage for to find out "They sail-ed east and they sail-ed west To find their passage they knew not best Ten thousand pounds would I freely give If I only knew if my husband lived "There is Captain Parry of high renown There is Captain Hoggs of Seamore town There is Captain Ross and many more I'm afraid they are lost on some foreign shore "In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blows The fate of Franklin no one knows I am afraid he is lost on yon foreign shore Where he left his home to return no more." Sir John Franklin set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845 skeletons were found in 1859 DT #401 Laws K9 @sea @sailor @death from Sam Henry's Songs of the People filename[ LADYFRN2 SOF |
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