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Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay	A
I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day	A
The candid day wind shaven brindled turf	B
Tall cliffs and long sea line of marbled surf	B
From Cornish Lizard to the Kentish Nore	C
Lipping the bulwarks of the English shore	C
While many a lovely ship below sailed by	D
On unknown errand kempt and leisurely	E
And after each oh after each my heart	F
Fled forth as watching from the Downs apart	F
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide	G
That might befall their beauty and their pride	G
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Shared first with them the bless d void repose	H
Of oily days at sea when only rose	H
The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen	I
Of satin water indolently green	I
When for'ard the crew caps tilted over eyes	J
Lay heaped on deck slept mumbled smoked threw dice	K
The sleepy summer days the summer nights	L
The coast pricked out with rings of harbour lights	L
The motionless nights the vaulted nights of June	M
When high in the cordage drifts the entangled moon	M
And blocks go knocking and the sheets go slapping	N
And lazy swells against the sides come lapping	N
And summer mornings off red Devon rocks	O
Faint inland bells at dawn and crowing cocks	O
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Shared swifter days when headlands into ken	P
Trod grandly threatened and were lost again	P
Old fangs along the battlemented coast	Q
And followed still my ship when winds were most	Q
Night purified and lying steeply over	C
She fled the wind as flees a girl her lover	C
Quickened by that pursuit for which she fretted	R
Her temper by the contest proved and whetted	R
Wild stars swept overhead her lofty spars	O
Reared to a ragged heaven sown with stars	O
As leaping out from narrow English ease	O
She faced the roll of long Atlantic seas	O
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Her captain then was I I was her crew	C
The mind that laid her course the wake she drew	C
The waves that rose against her bows the gales	O
Nay I was more I was her very sails	O
Rounded before the wind her eager keel	S
Her straining mast heads her responsive wheel	S
Her pennon stiffened like a swallow's wing	N
Yes I was all her slope and speed and swing	N
Whether by yellow lemons and blue sea	O
She dawdled through the isles off Thessaly	S
Or saw the palms like sheaves of scimitars	O
On desert's verge below the sunset bars	O
Or passed the girdle of the planet where	C
The Southern Cross looks over to the Bear	C
And strayed cool Northerner beneath strange skies	O
Flouting the lure of tropic estuaries	O
Down that long coast and saw Magellan's Clouds arise	O
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And some that beat up Channel homeward bound	T
I watched and wondered what they might have found	T
What alien ports enriched their teeming hold	U
With crates of fruit or bars of unwrought gold	U
And thought how London clerks with paper clips	O
Had filed the bills of lading of those ships	O
Clerks that had never seen the embattled sea	O
But wrote down jettison and barratry	C
Perils Adventures and the Act of God	V
Having no vision of such wrath flung broad	W
Wrote down with weary and accustomed pen	P
The classic dangers of sea faring men	P
And wrote 'Restraint of Princes ' and 'the Acts	O
Of the King's Enemies ' as vacant facts	O
Blind to the ambushed seas the encircling roar	C
Of angry nations foaming into war	C

Victoria Mary Sackville-west

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