[K. Vanderhoof]
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Integrity of construction
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The best money can buy
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Her size is greater than any
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A Belfast shipyard's pride
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Signal flags spelled out the word "Success"
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On her maneuvering trials
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Preservers and lifeboats were not in excess
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Unsinkable, no plans to save lives
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Athinai reports icebergs and field ice
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At seven bells ahead just five miles
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A black hulk against the night's darkness
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Disaster along starboard side
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Full speed astern were the orders
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It would do them no good
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No apparent collision
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A rip deep below the waterline
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Come at once, we have struck a berg
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Interference in transmission
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The newest, largest ship afloat
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Had two hours to live
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Lower all lifeboats, we have too few!
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Women and children first!
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Distress rockets fill the air
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Abandom Ship!"
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Sinking faster, every light ablaze
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Machinery, engines, crashing to the bow
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Arching vertical, stern points to the sky
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The great ship fractured
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Everyone must die
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Watching their families make it to safety
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Fifteen hundred went down
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The orchestra played to the last moment
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An eerie almost unreal sound
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The calm and ice North Atlantic
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Titanic's burial ground
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Rest In Pieces (April 15, 1912)
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