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Over that morn hung heaviness until	A
Near sunless noon we heard the ship's bell beating	B
A melancholy staccato on dead metal	C
Saw the bare footed watch come running aft	D
Felt far below the sudden telegraph jangle	C
Its harsh metallic challenge thrice repeated	E
'Stand to Half speed ahead Slow Stop her '	F
They stopped	G
The plunging pistons sank like a stopped heart	H
She held she swayed a hulk a hollow carcass	I
Of blistered iron that the grey green waveless	I
Unruffled tropic waters slapped languidly	C
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And in that pause a sinister whisper ran	J
Burial at Sea a Portuguese official	C
Poor fever broken devil from Mozambique	K
Came on half tight the doctor calls it heat stroke	L
Why do they travel steerage It's the exchange	M
So many million 'reis' to the pound	N
What did he look like No one ever saw him	O
Took to his bunk and drank and drank and died	P
They're ready Silence	I
We clustered to the rail	C
Curious and half ashamed The well deck spread	Q
A comfortable gulf of segregation	R
Between ourselves and death 'Burial at sea'	I
The master holds a black book at arm's length	S
His droning voice comes for'ard 'This our brother	T
We therefore commit his body to the deep	U
To be turned into corruption' The bo's'n whispers	I
Hoarsely behind his hand 'Now all together '	-
The hatch cover is tilted a mummy of sailcloth	S
Well ballasted with iron shoots clear of the poop	V
Falls like a diving gannet The green sea closes	I
Its burnished skin the snaky swell smoothes over	T
While he the man of the steerage goes down down	W
Feet foremost sliding swiftly down the dim water	T
Swift to escape	X
Those plunging shapes with pale empurpled bellies	I
That swirl and veer about him He goes down	W
Unerringly as though he knew the way	Y
Through green through gloom to absolute watery darkness	I
Where no weed sways nor curious fin quivers	I
To the sad sunless deeps where endlessly	C
A downward drift of death spreads its wan mantle	C
In the wave moulded valleys that shall enfold him	O
Till the sea give up its dead	Q
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There shall he lie dispersed amid great riches	I
Such gold such arrogance so many bold hearts	I
All the sunken armadas pressed to powder	T
By weight of incredible seas That mingled wrack	Z
No livening sun shall visit till the crust	A2
Of earth be riven or this rolling planet	B2
Reel on its axis till the moon chained tides	I
Unloosed deliver up that white Atlantis	I
Whose naked peaks shall bleach above the slaked	B2
Thirst of Sahara fringed by weedy tangles	I
Of Atlas's drown'd cedars frowning eastward	B2
To where the sands of India lie cold	B2
And heap'd Himalaya's a rib of coral	C
Slowly uplifted grain on grain	C2
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We dream	D2
Too long Another jangle of alarum	D2
Stabs at the engines 'Slow Half speed Full speed '	-
The great bearings rumble the screw churns frothing	Z
Opaque water to downward swelling plumes	I
Milky as wood smoke A shoal of flying fish	E2
Spurts out like animate spray The warm breeze wakens	I
And we pass on forgetting	Z
Toward the solemn horizon of bronzed cumulus	I
That bounds our brooding sea gathering gloom	D2
That when night falls will dissipate in flaws	I
Of watery lightning washing the hot sky	Z
Cleansing all hearts of heat and restlessness	I
Until with day another blue be born	F2

Francis Brett Young

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