Lord Franklin

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I was homeward bound one night on 
the deep
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Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
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I dreamed a dream and I thought it
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 true
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Concerning Franklin and his 
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gallant crew

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With a hundred seamen he sailed away
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O'er frozen oceans in the month of 
May
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To seek a passage around the pole
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Where we poor seamen must 
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sometimes go

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Through cruel hardships they mainly 
strove
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Their ship on mountains of ice was 
drove
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Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
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Was the only one that ever came 
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through

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In Baffin's Bay where the whale 
fishes blow
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The fate of Franklin no man may know
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The fate of Franklin no tongue 
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can tell
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Lord Franklin alone with his 
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sailors does dwell

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And now my burden it gives me pain
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For my long lost Franklin I would 
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cross the main
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Ten thousand pounds would I 
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freely give
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To say on earth that my Franklin
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 does live