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Book: The Seven Seas

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  • An American
    The American Spirit speaks:
      "If the Led Striker call it a strike,
    69 lines
  • Anchor Song
    Heh!  Walk her round.  Heave, ah, heave her short again!
    Over, snatch her over, there, and hold her on the pawl.
    47 lines
  • The Song Of The Dead
    Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges --
    They that look still to the Pole, asleep by their hide-
    87 lines
  • Mulholland's Contract
    The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
    An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --
    56 lines
  • The Rhyme Of The Three Sealers
    Away by the lands of the Japanee
    Where the paper lanterns glow
    177 lines
  • Sappers
    When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
    ("It's all one," says the Sapper),
    81 lines
  • The Merchantmen
    King Solomon drew merchantmen,
    Because of his desire
    109 lines
  • The Ladies
    I've taken my fun where I've found it;
    I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
    72 lines
  • The Shut-Eye Sentry
    Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant
    To the Senior Orderly Man:
    79 lines
  • The Last Rhyme Of True Thomas
    The King has called for priest and cup,
    The King has taken spur and blade
    200 lines
  • The Story Of Ung
    Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
    Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow.
    52 lines
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