Pratt High School - Osage Yearbook (Essex, CT)

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CSAGE PRATT HIGH SCZHOGL ESSEX, coNNEcTlc:uT VOLUME XX CLASS OF I949

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V, 1' Mi' 7544-a 'lfilklli lvl!- V? 0-151 A 'Q' 'ii- - ' I,-nv 2 f' ? THE QLD WRECK QOSAGEJ A RELIC OF THE WAR OF 1812 Resting below the grist-mill old, Mid eddying foam Hakes from its wheel, It shows when drained the tide at ebb A few black ribs along a keel. There has it stood for eight years And marked the busy seasons go From the bloom of shad-bush on the shore To the hazel's pale and dying glow. But few remember when 'twas laid, Or heard the mallet's echoing rhymeg Or saw its rib uprise-a frame- As some monster of the olden time. Yet did it never part the tide, Its sail to bend 'neath favoring breeze And ride by Ceylon's perfumed isle Or harbor in far distant seas. Its hulk shall be a funeral pyre- The calm Connecticut be its graveg And the charred form of many a ship Shall thy gently rippling waters lave. Unknown the British sailed the stream When darkness brooded over allg Besieged the shores, the vessels burned And held the town in terrors thrall. Still 'mong the annals old and quaint The story is still handed down, And the old wreck is pointed proof Of when the British came to town. -S. M. CoMsTocK 418937