John Mc Neill Boyd

St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, by Thomas Farrell RHA

The inscription reads;

 

Erected by the citizens of Dublin

To The Memory of

John McNeil Boyd, RN (Royal Navy) Captain HMS Ajax

Born at Londonderry 1812 and lost off the rocks at Kingstown

February 9, 1861 attempting to save the crew of the Brig. Neptune

 

Safe from the rocks, Whence swept thy manly form

The tide white rush, The stepping of the storm

Borne with a public pomp, By just decree

Heroic sailor! From that fatal sea.

A city vows this marble unto thee,

And here in this calm place, where never sin

of earth great waterfloods shall enter in

When to our human hearts, two thoughts are given,

One, Christ's self-sacrifice, the other heaven

here is it meet for grief and love to grave

The Christ-taught bravery that died to save

The life not lost but found beneath the wave.

 

All Thy billows and Thy Waves passed over me, yet

I will look again toward Thy Holy Temple

 

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