Legend

Setting out on its maiden voyage

The grandest design of its age

All aboard thinking of new lives ahead

Woken abruptly from their bed

The ice had acted like a knife

To take away such life

Like a stab to the heart

Ripping steel plates apart

Floundering in the calmest sea

A lesson for you and me

Mans arrogance had cost this ship dear

With journeys end so very near

Lifeboats unable to cope with the number

Who had risen from their slumber

A legend starts to unfold

Of death in the icy cold

The innocents have to pay

For the unsinkable sinking, let us pray.

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More than a century the inquest carries on

About exactly what went wrong

But we all know the story

Of the majestic liners lost glory

And the many who took fright

Realising their lives were to end that night

We must always remember the cost

And appreciate what was lost

One mans desire for haste

Led to such an appalling waste

So never forget,this tragedy in the Atlantic

Of the ill fated Titanic