Flamborough; Village and Headland - Dr Robert Fisher

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... FLAMBOROUGH POEMS. A Plea For The Sea-birds. Stay now thine hand! Proclaim not man's dominion Over God's works by strewing rocks and sand With sea-birds' blood-stain'd plume and broken pinion. Oh, stay thine hand! Spend not thy days of leisure In scattering death along the peaceful strand For very wantonness, or pride, or pleasure. For bird's sake, spare! Leave it in happy motion To wheel its easy circles through the air, Or rest and rock upon the shining ocean. For man's sake, spare! Leave him this "thing of beauty" To glance and glide before him everywhere, And throw a gleam on after days of duty. For God's sake, spare! He notes each sea-bird falling, And in Creation's groans marks its sad share--Its dying cry---for retribution calling. Oh, stay thine hand! Cease from this useless slaughter--For though kind Nature from the rocks and sand Washes the stains each day with briny water, Yet on thine hand, Raised against God's fair creature, Beware lest there be found a crimson brand Indelible by any force of Nature. Richard Wilton, M.a. (From "Wood Notes and Church Bells.") The Flamborough Pilots. The lights revolve, now white, now red, In vain--no warning ray is shed From mist-enfolded Flamborough Head. In vain the gun booms on the shore--No warning sound is wafted o'er The waves that to the darkness roar. To straining eye and listening ear, In heaven or earth no signs appear Whereby bewildered bark may steer. But suddenly a voice is heard, The wailing note of wild sea-bird, And all the sailor's heart is stirred. "The Flamborough Pilots," is his cry, Beware--beware--the rocks are nigh, Turn the ship's head, and seaward fly. Blest birds--kind white-winged pilots, hark, Like angels call they through the dark--Like angels save that helpless bark. 'Tis morn--the ...