[Gutenberg 46381] • The Lead of Honour

Excerpt from The Lead of Honour

On the intense, lonely stillness Of the night the throbbing puffs Of the engines seemed the voice of the great river - relentless, solemn, insistent. The tinkling Of the pilot's bell sounded intermittently from the engine-room; and monotonously reiterated, came the weird call Of the leadsman as he sounded the depths Of the uncertain Channel.

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