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Arrizonda

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  • on Sea Fever by John Masefield, on October 15

    Exquisite saddness.

    When I was a small boy my father, a merchant seaman during WW11 would often recite this poem to me. I've never heard or seen it written anywhere else. He passed away two years ago and I had it read at his funeral but with his own altered last line: ''And quiet sleep and sweet dreams when my last trip is over''
    My father left the sea but, the sea would not leave my father.