The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey Learn English with Poem Recitation

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The Inchcape Rock By Robert Southey • No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, • The ship was still as she could be; • Her sails from heaven received no motion; • Her keel was steady in the ocean. • Without either sign or sound of their shock, • The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; • So little they rose, so little they fell, • They did not move the Inchcape Bell. • The Abbot of Aberbrothok • Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock; • On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, • And over the waves its warning rung. • When the rock was hid by the surge's swell, • The mariners heard the warning bell; • And then they knew the perilous rock, • And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. • The sun in heaven was shining gay; • All things were joyful on that day; • The sea-birds screamed as they wheeled round, • And there was joyance in their sound. • The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen, • A darker speck on the ocean green: • Sir Ralph the Rover walked his deck, • And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. • He felt the cheering power of spring; • It made him whistle, it made him sing: • His heart was mirthful to excess, • But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. • His eye was on the Inchcape float; • Quoth he, My men, put out the boat, • And row me to the Inchcape Rock, • And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok. • The boat is lowered, the boatmen row, • And to the Inchcape Rock they go; • Sir Ralph bent over from the boat, • And he cut the bell from the Inchcape float. • Down sunk the bell with a gurgling sound; • The bubbles rose and burst around: • Quoth Sir Ralph, The next who comes to the rock • Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok. • Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away; • He scoured the seas for many a day; • And now, grown rich with plundered store, • He steers his course for Scotland's shore. • So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky, • They cannot see the sun on high: • The wind hath blown a gale all day; • At evening it hath died away. • On the deck the Rover takes his stand; • So dark it is, they see no land. • Quoth Sir Ralph, It will be lighter soon, • For there is the dawn of the rising moon. • Canst hear, said one, the breakers roar? • For methinks we should be near the shore. • Now where we are I cannot tell, • But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. • They hear no sound; the swell is strong; • Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, • Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock: • O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock! • Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair, • He curst himself in his despair: • The waves rush in on every side; • The ship is sinking beneath the tide. • But even in his dying fear • One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,- • A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell, • The Devil below was ringing his knell. • The Inchcape Rock | Learn English with Poem Recitation • #theinchcaperock • #englishpoemrecitationinchcaperock • #theinchcaperockappreciation, • The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey • the inchcape rock brainstorming, • the inchcape rock by robert southey,

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