steam-chant

Updated: May 22, 2025

With a sonorous steam-chant of triumph the brave little vessel rode at last into the bayou, and anchored hard by her accustomed resting-place, in full view of the hotel, though not near enough to shore to lower her gang-plank.... But she had sung her swan-song.

Lafcadio Hearn - Chita: a Memory of Last Island