Banned by the land of their birth," the central characters of the poem (*) bathe in Christ's "fall-gold mercies," and "breathe in his all-fire glances" before dying.
At the beginning of this poem's second part, Death is introduced banging a drum, and announcing that it appears to some people as a sword, and to others as a "flame, fang, or flood." The narrator states that "Hope had grown grey hairs" twelve hours after this poem's central event had occurred," while in the distance, "only rocket and lightship" shone. "Banned by the land of their birth," the central characters of the poem (*) bathe in Christ's "fall-gold mercies," and "breathe in his all-fire glances" before dying. The titular vessel "sailed from Bremen,/ American-outward-bound," before running aground on the Kentish Knock. FTP, name this poem dedicated to the "happy memory" of five Franciscan nuns, written by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
At the beginning of this poem's second part, Death is introduced banging a drum, and announcing that it appears to some people as a sword, and to others as a "flame, fang, or flood."
"The Wreck of the Deutschland"