"The Damnation Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Barker Clive)

Part Five. THE DELUGE

Out of a fired ship, which, by no way

But drowning could be rescued from the flame,

Some men leaped forth, and ever as they came

Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;

So all were lost, which in the ship were found,

They in the sea being burnt,

they in the burnt ship drowned.

-JOHN DONNE, "A Burnt Ship"