THE SEA-MAN.
wrft-c/ped in a- ewl Like a coat o' mail. And his blood is ''blue" With an ocean hue, And the passioned swell Holds * siren-spell. The time and the tide, And an ocean-pride; Th« grey ships thai sail, And the league* avail. Oh, «, hissing breeze, And. the living sea* I
"Ah* dew lores o' mir«:° New ports and old wine, A gay foreign -lass, Ox some fleet «-pass. Thus mine is the ae*, And -the sea. claim* me!"
— LiYßireao.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 70
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80THE SEA-MAN. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 70
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