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King Solomon drew merchantmen	A
Because of his desire	B
For peacocks apes and ivory	C
From Tarshish unto Tyre	D
With cedars out of Lebanon	E
Which Hiram rafted down	F
But we be only sailormen	F
That use in London Town	F
	-
Coastwise cross seas round the world and back again	F
Where the flaw shall head us or the full Trade suits	G
Plain sail storm sail lay your board and tack again	F
And that's the way we'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots	G
	-
We bring no store of ingots	H
Of spice or precious stones	I
But that we have we gathered	J
With sweat and aching bones	I
In flame beneath the tropics	K
In frost upon the floe	L
And jeopardy of every wind	M
That does between them go	L
	-
And some we got by purchase	N
And some we had by trade	O
And some we found by courtesy	C
Of pike and carronade	O
At midnight 'mid sea meetings	P
For charity to keep	Q
And light the rolling homeward bound	O
That rode a foot too deep	Q
	-
By sport of bitter weather	B
We're walty strained and scarred	O
From the kentledge on the kelson	F
To the slings upon the yard	O
Six oceans had their will of us	N
To carry all away	R
Our galley's in the Baltic	S
And our boom's in Mossel Bay	R
	-
We've floundered off the Texel	L
Awash with sodden deals	T
We've slipped from Valparaiso	L
With the Norther at our heels	T
We've ratched beyond the Crossets	T
That tusk the Southern Pole	L
And dipped our gunnels under	B
To the dread Agulhas roll	L
	-
Beyond all outer charting	U
We sailed where none have sailed	O
And saw the land lights burning	U
On islands none have hailed	O
Our hair stood up for wonder	B
But when the night was done	F
There danced the deep to windward	O
Blue empty 'neath the sun	F
	-
Strange consorts rode beside us	T
And brought us evil luck	V
The witch fire climbed our channels	T
And flared on vane and truck	V
Till through the red tornado	L
That lashed us nigh to blind	O
We saw The Dutchman plunging	U
Full canvas head to wind	O
	-
We've heard the Midnight Leadsman	F
That calls the black deep down	F
Ay thrice we've heard The Swimmer	B
The Thing that may not drown	F
On frozen bunt and gasket	O
The sleet cloud drave her hosts	T
When manned by more than signed with us	T
We passed the Isle o' Ghosts	T
	-
And north amid the hummocks	T
A biscuit toss below	L
We met the silent shallop	Q
That frighted whalers know	L
For down a cruel ice lane	F
That opened as he sped	O
We saw dead Henry Hudson	F
Steer North by West his dead	O
	-
So dealt God's waters with us	T
Beneath the roaring skies	T
So walked His signs and marvels	T
All naked to our eyes	T
But we were heading homeward	O
With trade to lose or make	W
Good Lord they slipped behind us	T
In the tailing of our wake	W
	-
Let go let go the anchors	T
Now shamed at heart are we	C
To bring so poor a cargo home	X
That had for gift the sea	C
Let go the great bow anchors	T
Ah fools were we and blind	O
The worst we stored with utter toil	L
The best we left behind	O
	-
Coastwise cross seas round the world and back again	F
Whither flaw shall fail us or the Trades drive down	F
Plain sail storm sail lay your board and tack again	F
And all to bring a cargo up to London Town	F

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