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When we were building Skua Light	A
The first men who had lived a night	A
Upon that deep sea Isle	B
As soon as chisel touched the stone	C
The friendly seals would come ashore	D
And sit and watch us all the while	B
As though they'd not seen men before	D
And so poor beasts had never known	C
Men had the heart to do them harm	E
They'd little cause to feel alarm	E
With us for we were glad to find	F
Some friendliness in that strange sea	G
Only too pleaed to let them be	G
And sit as long as they'd a mind	F
To watch us for their eyes were kind	F
Like women's eyes it seemed to me	G
So hour on hour they sat I think	H
They liked to hear the chisels clink	H
And when the boy sang loud and clear	I
They scrambled closer in to hear	J
And if he whistled sweet and shrill	K
The queer beasts shuffled nearer still	K
But every sleek and sheeny skin	L
Was mad to hear his violin	L
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When work all over for the day	M
He'd take his fiddle down and play	M
His merry tunes beside the sea	G
Their eyes grew brighter and more bright	A
And burned and twinkled merrily	G
And as I watched them one still night	A
And saw their eager sparkling eyes	N
I felt those lively seals would rise	N
Some shiny night ere he could know	O
And dance about him heel and toe	O
Unto the fiddle's headdy tune	P
	-
And at the rising of the moon	P
Half daft I took my stand before	D
A young seal lying on the shore	D
And called on her to dance with me	G
And it seemed hardly strange when she	G
Stood up before me suddenly	G
And shed her black and sheeny skin	L
And smiled all eager to begin	L
And I was dancing heel and toe	O
With a young maiden white as snow	O
Unto a crazy violin	L
	-
We danced beneath the dancing moon	P
All night beside the dancing sea	G
With tripping toes and skipping heels	Q
And all about us friendly seals	Q
Like Christian folk were dancing reels	Q
Unto the fiddle's endless tune	P
That kept on spinning merrily	G
As though it never meant to stop	R
And never once the snow white maid	S
A moment stayed	S
To take a breath	T
Though I was fit to drop	R
And while those wild eyes challenged me	G
I knew as well as well could be	G
I must keep step with that young girl	U
Though we should dance to death	T
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Then with a skirl	U
The fiddle broke	V
The moon went out	W
The sea stopped dead	X
And in a twinkling all the rout	W
Of dancing folk had fled	X
And in the chill bleak dawn I woke	V
Upon the naked rock alone	C
	-
They've brought me far from Skua Isle	U
I laugh to think they do not know	O
That as all day I chip the stone	C
Among my fellows here inland	Y
I smell the sea wrack on the shore	D
And see her snowy tossing hand	Y
And meet again her merry smile	U
And dream I'm dancing all the while	U
I'm dancing ever heel and toe	O
With a seal maiden white as snow	O
On that moonshiny Island strand	Y
For ever and for evermore	D

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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