All hearts light and merry we put out to sea;
With her full crew and passengers sixty in number,
The vessel proceeded so gallant we’re told,
They thought not of storms, nor even of danger,
Though rescu’d from death by Grace Darling so bold.
In the dead of the night on the 6th of September,
The crew and passengers felt dreadful shocks,
Against Longstone Island with force so tremendous,
The Forfarshire steamer she went on the rocks,
Asunder she rent while the crew fell a weeping.