THE SEA PAL.
(By Florance McK. Smart. 100, Rutcno Road, Kaiti, Gisborne: age 15.) My heart is very heavy, as I'm standing here to-day, I admit I shed a tear or two, as I saw her towed away, For she was my friend from childhood, and I knew her well and true, And I loved her gentle rolling, as she sailed across the blue. I was cabin boy upon her when she first set sail for sea, And all those happy times live had I bring to memory. I recall a storm she weathered in those ■ many years ago; I recall that dangerous voyage to the land of ice and snow. I rose to be her captain, and I loved her smooth round wheel; I have steered her through the roughest seas, and she was time as steel. She has sailed past tropic islands, she has been out to the East, So it makes my heai\t grow heavy, to think it all has ceased. She'll no more go treasure seeking to those palm-fringed tropic isles, She'll no more go smoothly gliding o'er those many watery miles. For the steamers now have come, and the sails are done away, And they took my old sea pal and sank her in the bay. —Original.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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212THE SEA PAL. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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