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The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems

By John Masefield

2019-03-16 17:08:37

EXCERPT..... Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck, All work aboard was over for the hour, And some men sang and others played at check, Or mended clothes or watched the sunset glower. The bursting west was like an opening flowe ... Read more
EXCERPT..... Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck, All work aboard was over for the hour, And some men sang and others played at check, Or mended clothes or watched the sunset glower. The bursting west was like an opening flower, And one man watched it till the light was dim, But no one went across to talk to him. He was the painter in that swift ship's crew, Lampman and painter--tall, a slight-built man, Young for his years, and not yet twenty-two; Sickly, and not yet brown with the sea's tan. Bullied and damned at since the voyage "Being neither man nor seaman by his tally," He bunked with the idlers just abaft the galley. Less

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File size149.085 KB
Print pages99
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-10-27
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781722264857
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John Masefield
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John Edward Masefield OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best-known works are the children's no...

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