a humorous
reference to the poem Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) about the
death of the son of a
French naval
captain in 1798. The
ship that they were on caught
fire while the
boy was on
watch, and the father was burnt to
death. The
boy stood by his
post until the
ship blew up: / "The
boy stood on the
burning deck, / Whence all but he had fled. / The flame that
licked the battle's wreck / Shown round him o'
er the
dead. / The flames rolled on; he would not go / Without his father's
word." / There have been many corruptions of this poem by anonymous authors.
—SHSBC Binder 15 Approved Glossary