James D. McCabe.
Descriptive and Dramatic Recitations
QUICK! MAN THE LIFE-BOAT!
This selection demands great vivacity and intense dramatic expression. Each reference to the life-boat requires rapid utterance, elevated pitch and strong tones of command. Point to the life-boat; you are to see it, and make your audience see it. They will see it in imagination if you do; that is, if you speak and act as if you stood on the shore and actually saw the life-boat hurrying to the rescue.
Quick! man the life-boat! See yon bark
That drives before the blast?
There’s a rock ahead, the fog is dark,