NANTUCKET'S LAST WHALESHIP
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No more we boast our wooden walls; The boy. no longer duty calls To train himself a sailor, Our hundred ships, all lost or sold, (Like Thebes's hundred gates of old,) Exist but in old story told By some grey-bearded whaler. But cheerfully we face the truth; We retrospect upon our youth, But don't complain, or wail, or Blubber about what once we had; It can't be helped, —but give me one sad "Farewell!" to our last whaler.
Note: The above poem was written by William Hussey Macy for The Inquirer and Mirror in 1873, upon the occasion of the sale of the bark R. L. Barstow, the last whaling vessel owned at Nantucket.
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