Attention, fellow countrymen,
while this sad tale I'll tell,
About the well-known steamboat,
the SS Florizel;
When gravely harmed up near Renews,
the steamer came to grief,
Caught in a blinding snowstorm,
she ran up on a reef.
Last Saturday night at eight o'clock
the steamer left the pier,
With every indication, a storm was drawing near;
With Captain Martin on the bridge,
she sailed that afternoon,
With one hundred and thirty passengers
in the steerage and saloon.
A blinding snowstorm did come on
before she left Cape Spear,
She being a strong and powerful boat,
the passengers had no fear;
While in their bunks they lay at night,
a calm and peaceful sleep,
Not thinking before it was morning
they'd be buried in the deep.
Up near Renews as morning dawned
all hands received a shock,
When scrambling from their berths that night,
they found she'd struck a rock;
Some rushed on deck, being scarcely clad,
in hopes their lives to save,
The sea soon washed them off her deck
into the angry waves.
"She's on the rocks! She's on the rocks!"
the passengers did cry,
Poor helpless women in their berths
gave up their lives to die;
While strong men scrambled up in hopes
their precious lives to save,
The sea soon washed them off her deck
into the angry waves.
Many cried and others prayed
that help would be nearby,
And to attract them on the shore,
more signals they did fly;
And soon a large ship she was seen,
who took them from the wreck,
And only forty lives were saved
out of one hundred six.
A gloom was cast on every home
to hear the saddening news,
About the Florizel went down
when wrecked up near Renews;
And ninety-four their precious lives
that evening left the shore,
They met their doom a-drowning -
we'll see them nevermore.
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