198 HISTORY OF TWO BROTHERS. 



hearts foreboded — that the gale was near them. 

 Fierce lightning began to play about the black- 

 ened horizon^ and the distant thunder roared 

 sullenly amidst the gathering clouds, seeming to 

 warn them not to proceed further. To fly was 

 now their only chance for safety : they turned 

 their little bark, in hopes of escaping — but the 

 cold wind reached them, * 



It came resistless, and with foaming sweep^, 

 Upturned the whitening surface of the deep, 

 And swift, and fatal as the lightning's course, 

 Thro' the torn main-sail burst with thund'ring force. 



The fury of the elements had overtaken them, 

 they scudded like the wind, till the raging storm 

 tore away her mast: — thunder, lightning, sea 

 and gale now came upon them, with redoubled 

 force. Their mast gone, she became unmanage- 

 able; a sea struck her, when she broached to 



* When a ship is overtaken in a squall, the wind from it 

 generally blows very cold. 



