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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
DALLAS · ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
SALT-WATER
BALLADS
BY
JOHN MASEFIELD
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1915
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913
Reprinted April, 1915.
Some of this book was written in my boyhood, all of it in my youth; itis now re-issued, much as it was when first published nearly elevenyears ago. J. M.
9th June 1913
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| A CONSECRATION | |
| Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers. | 1 |
| THE YARN OF THE ‘LOCH ACHRAY’ | |
| The ‘Loch Achray’ was a clipper tall. | 3 |
| SING A SONG O’ SHIPWRECK | |
| He lolled on a bollard, a sun-burned son of the sea | 7 |
| BURIAL PARTY | |
| ‘He’s deader ’n nails,’ the fo’c’s’le said, ‘ ’n’ gone to his long sleep’ | 11 |
| BILL | |
| He lay dead on the cluttered deck and stared at the cold skies | 14 |
| FEVER SHIP | |
| There’ll be no weepin gells ashore when our ship sails | 15 |
| FEVER-CHILLS | |
| He tottered out of the alleyway with cheeks the colour of paste | 17 |
| ONE OF THE BO’SUN’S YARNS | |
| Loafin’ around in Sailor Town, a-bluin’ o’ my advance | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |