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HELPING SAVE SCAVENGERS AND SALVAGERS

SITUATED AT THE SOUTHEASTERN TIP.

FISHERMAN, PIRATES AND SALTY WRECKERS

FROM NATURE’S FURY AS THE WINDS WOULD WHIP.

 

MEADE’S MONUMENT WAS LEVELED BY HURR'CANE

SOON WAS REBUILT TO EIGHTY-SIX FEET.

SURVIVED ONLY BY THE TENDER FROM BANE

THIS BEACON SAVES OTHERS FROM STORMS THEY MEET.

 

NOW IT RESTS GIVEN WAY TO THE REEF LIGHTS

SERVED PROUDLY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

BUT STILL IT PROVIDED FOR NATURE’S FIGHTS

FOR THE NUMEROUS TIMES WHEN THERE WERE FEARS.

 

STANDING TALL AND REACHING TOWARDS THE HEAVENS

KEY WEST’S BLACK AND WHITE TOPPED TOWER BECKONS.