Titanic: Strange Cargo

No expense was spared For the passengers of the world's greatest liner 40 embalmers Embalming supplies Tons of ice 100 coffins for first class passage Canvas body bags for third class passage The death boat sailed from Halifax To haul 306 from the freezing waters 116 were far too badly damaged To decipher identity And those had a sea burial Returned to the waves which snatched them The strange, unearthly cargo Journeyed on through the spectral gloom of the tides Mothers, musicians, waiters No more roughing it in third class squalor 2 bath tubs between 700 In death, the abrasive tides Would rub and drub away all social distinctions Filling both well-heeled and downtrodden boots With equal speed, after the terrible Tipping terror that was Titanic