WHEN MY SHIP COMES HOME FROM SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 110, 9 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHEN MY SHIP COMES HOME FROM SEA.

BY MRS £ L. KIPLING,

Oh, a golden comb for golden hair, '. And milk white pearls for a neck as fair; ■ And silver chains, and all for me, The day my ship comes home from sea.

O, silken 'broideries, green and bine, And wrought with crimson thro' and

thro. "With coral and amber; all for me, The day my ship comes home from sea.

And -where is tlie good skip sailing from Tliat brings these brave .things safety home? And by what name do you hail her free* And who is her captain on the sea?

My ship comes sailing from the West, And her name is called The Sailor's Rest; y And the bravest man of all her crew* j Her captain, is my lover true* L

O, never will that ship come home/ '■ Wherever she be sailing from; I wanned my hands beneath the stars By a lire made of her broken spars. »

And three days dead the captain lay, , BuE how he died no man may say;

I laid him out by the pale moon rise, And made a shroud of the 'broideries.

With ooral and gold I weighted Mm, And still lio was light enough to swim, ' With silver chains I bound him down, There was never a corpse ,so hard te* drown. ITis black hair lines an eagle's nest On a sea girt cliff in the lonesome westj Now jet for corn! there must be And instead of amber, ebony.

The "Sunday Magazine" publishes an article under the title, "Favourite Texrg of Famous People." Sir Henry Irving writes: Ihe passage which has always appealed most strongly to me is this: "And the greatest of These is charity" (I. Cor. xiii. 13). Mr. Alfred Austin'o favourite text is: "Let there be light" (Genesis i. 3). Mr. Eider Eaggard's 13» "In your patience possess ye your soulaP , ' (Luke xxi. 19). Madame Patti (the Ba*. on ess Cederstrom) writes that her fa* vourite text is: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life" (Rev. ii. 10). President Roosevelt gladly responds that one of his favourite Scriptural passages is: "Be ye doers of the word, not hearers only" (James i 22). * ■ *