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June	A
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THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY	B
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One sail in sight upon the lonely sea	C
And only one God knows For never ship	D
But mine broke through the icy gates that guard	E
These waters greater grown than any since	F
We left the shores of England We were first	G
My men to battle in between the bergs	H
And floes to these wide waves This gulf is mine	I
I name it and that flying sail is mine	I
And there hull down below that flying sail	J
The ship that staggers home is mine mine mine	I
My ship Discoverie	K
The sullen dogs	L
Of mutineers the bitches' whelps that snatched	M
Their food and bit the hand that nourished them	N
Have stolen her You ingrate Henry Greene	O
I picked you from the gutter of Houndsditch	P
And paid your debts and kept you in my house	Q
And brought you here to make a man of you	R
You Robert Juet ancient crafty man	S
Toothless and tremulous how many times	T
Have I employed you as a master's mate	U
To give you bread And you Abacuck Prickett	V
You sailor clerk you salted puritan	W
You knew the plot and silently agreed	X
Salving your conscience with a pious lie	Y
Yes all of you hounds rebels thieves Bring back	Z
My ship	D
Too late I rave they cannot hear	K
My voice and if they heard a drunken laugh	A2
Would be their answer for their minds have caught	B2
The fatal firmness of the fool's resolve	C2
That looks like courage but is only fear	K
They'll blunder on and lose my ship and drown	D2
Or blunder home to England and be hanged	E2
Their skeletons will rattle in the chains	F2
Of some tall gibbet on the Channel cliffs	G2
While passing mariners look up and say	B
Those are the rotten bones of Hudson's men	H2
Who left their captain in the frozen North	I2
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O God of justice why hast Thou ordained	J2
Plans of the wise and actions of the brave	K2
Dependent on the aid of fools and cowards	L2
Look there she goes her topsails in the sun	W
Gleam from the ragged ocean edge and drop	M2
Clean out of sight So let the traitors go	N2
Clean out of mind We'll think of braver things	O2
Come closer in the boat my friends John King	P2
You take the tiller keep her head nor'west	Q2
You Philip Staffe the only one who chose	R2
Freely to share our little shallop's fate	U
Rather than travel in the hell bound ship	D
Too good an English seaman to desert	S2
These crippled comrades try to make them rest	Q2
More easy on the thwarts And John my son	W
My little shipmate come and lean your head	T2
Against your father's knee Do you recall	U2
That April morn in Ethelburga's church	P
Five years ago when side by side we kneeled	T2
To take the sacrament with all our men	H2
Before the Hopewell left St Catherine's docks	V2
On our first voyage It was then I vowed	T2
My sailor soul and years to search the sea	C
Until we found the water path that leads	W2
From Europe into Asia	P
I believe	X2
That God has poured the ocean round His world	T2
Not to divide but to unite the lands	Y2
And all the English captains that have dared	T2
In little ships to plough uncharted waves	Z2
Davis and Drake Hawkins and Frobisher	K
Raleigh and Gilbert all the other names	A3
Are written in the chivalry of God	T2
As men who served His purpose I would claim	B3
A place among that knighthood of the sea	C
And I have earned it though my quest should fail	J
For mark me well the honour of our life	C3
Derives from this to have a certain aim	B3
Before us always which our will must seek	D3
Amid the peril of uncertain ways	E3
Then though we miss the goal our search is crowned	T2
With courage and we find along our path	F3
A rich reward of unexpected things	O2
Press towards the aim take fortune as it fares	G3
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I know not why but something in my heart	T2
Has always whispered Westward seek your goal	H3
Three times they sent me east but still I turned	T2
The bowsprit west and felt among the floes	G3
Of ruttling ice along the Gr neland coast	T2
And down the rugged shore of Newfoundland	T2
And past the rocky capes and wooded bays	G3
Where Gosnold sailed like one who feels his way	B
With outstretched hand across a darkened room	I3
I groped among the inlets and the isles	G3
To find the passage to the Land of Spice	G3
I have not found it yet but I have found	T2
Things worth the finding	P2
Son have you forgot	T2
Those mellow autumn days two years ago	N2
When first we sent our little ship Half Moon	A
The flag of Holland floating at her peak	D3
Across a sandy bar and sounded in	J3
Among the channels to a goodly bay	B
Where all the navies of the world could ride	T2
A fertile island that the redmen called	T2
Manhattan lay above the bay the land	T2
Around was bountiful and friendly fair	K
But never land was fair enough to hold	T2
The seaman from the calling of the sea	G3
And so we bore to westward of the isle	K3
Along a mighty inlet where the tide	T2
Was troubled by a downward flowing flood	T2
That seemed to come from far away perhaps	G3
From some mysterious gulf of Tartary	K
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Inland we held our course by palisades	G3
Of naked rock where giants might have built	T2
Their fortress and by rolling hills adorned	T2
With forests rich in timber for great ships	G3
Through narrows where the mountains shut us in	J3
With frowning cliffs that seemed to bar the stream	L3
And then through open reaches where the banks	G3
Sloped to the water gently with their fields	G3
Of corn and lentils smiling in the sun	W
Ten days we voyaged through that placid land	T2
Until we came to shoals and sent a boat	T2
Upstream to find what I already knew	R
We travelled on a river not a strait	T2
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But what a river God has never poured	T2
A stream more royal through a land more rich	P
Even now I see it flowing in my dream	L3
While coming ages people it with men	H2
Of manhood equal to the river's pride	T2
I see the wigwams of the redmen changed	T2
To ample houses and the tiny plots	G3
Of maize and green tobacco broadened out	T2
To prosperous farms that spread o'er hill and dale	J
The many coloured mantle of their crops	G3
I see the terraced vineyard on the slope	M3
Where now the fox grape loops its tangled vine	I
And cattle feeding where the red deer roam	N3
And wild bees gathered into busy hives	G3
To store the silver comb with golden sweet	T2
And all the promised land begins to flow	N2
With milk and honey Stately manors rise	G3
Along the banks and castles top the hills	G3
And little villages grow populous with trade	T2
Until the river runs as proudly as the Rhine	I
The thread that links a hundred towns and towers	G3
And looking deeper in my dream I see	G3
A mighty city covering the isle	K3
They call Manhattan equal in her state	T2
To all the older capitals of earth	O3
The gateway city of a golden world	T2
A city girt with masts and crowned with spires	G3
And swarming with a host of busy men	H2
While to her open door across the bay	B
The ships of all the nations flock like doves	G3
My name will be remembered there for men	H2
Will say This river and this isle were found	T2
By Henry Hudson on his way to seek	D3
The Northwest Passage into Farthest Inde	T2
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Yes yes I sought it then I seek it still	P3
My great adventure and my guiding star	K
For look ye friends our voyage is not done	W
We hold by hope as long as life endures	G3
Somewhere among these floating fields of ice	G3
Somewhere along this westward widening bay	B
Somewhere beneath this luminous northern night	T2
The channel opens to the Orient	T2
I know it and some day a little ship	D
Will push her bowsprit in and battle through	R
And why not ours to morrow who can tell	Q3
The lucky chance awaits the fearless heart	T2
These are the longest days of all the year	K
The world is round and God is everywhere	K
And while our shallop floats we still can steer	K
So point her up John King nor'west by north	I2
We 'l keep the honour of a certain aim	B3
Amid the peril of uncertain ways	G3
And sail ahead and leave the rest to God	T2

Henry Van Dyke

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