USA broadside maritime ballad 'THE STORM' c. 1860

$50.00 CAD

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Civil War era broadside sheet with maritime ballad about a ship in danger in rough seas.

Written by George Alex Stevens (1710-1784).

THE STORM

CEASE, rude Boreas, blust’ring railer!

List, ye landsmen, all to me!

Messmates, hear a brother sailor

Sing the dangers of the sea;

From bounding billows, first in motion,

When the distant whirlwinds rise,

To the tempest-troubled ocean, Where the seas contend with skies…

…

O’er the Ice-beam is the land, boys,

Le the guns o’erboard be thrown;

To the pump, come ev’ry hand, boys,

See! Our mizen-mast is gone.

The leak we’ve found, it can’t pour fast,

We’ve lightened her a foot or more;

Up, and rig a jury foremast.

She rights, she rIghts, boys, we’re off shore!”

…

Decorated in each corner is woodblock uimage head of a man in profile, some appear to be African-American.

Red stamp at bottom of the publisher ‘FROM T.C. BOYD, 228 Montgomery San Francisco’

In bottom border ‘H. DE MARSAN, Publisher 60 Chatham str. New-York’

Hand-colored

Toned on borders.

9 ¾” x 6 ⅜”

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