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John Masefield
John Masefield was a well-known English poet and novelist. After boarding school, Masefield took to a life at sea where he picked up many stories, which influenced his decision to become a writer. Upon returning to England after finding work in New York City, Masefield began publishing his poetry in periodicals, and then eventually in collections. In 1915, Masefield joined the Allied forces in France and served in a British army hospital there, despite being old enough to be exempt from military service. After a brief service, Masefield returned to Britain and was sent overseas to the United States to research the American opinion on the war. This trip encouraged him to write his book Gallipoli, which dealt with the failed Allied attacks in the Dardanelles, as a means of negating German propaganda in the Americas. Masefield continued to publish throughout his life and was appointed as Poet Laureate in 1930. Masefield died in 1967 the age of 88.
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Salt-Water Ballads - John Masefield
John Masefield
Salt-Water Ballads
EAN 8596547350330
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Table of Contents
A CONSECRATION
THE YARN OF THE ‘LOCH ACHRAY’
SING A SONG O’ SHIPWRECK
BURIAL PARTY
BILL
FEVER SHIP
FEVER-CHILLS
ONE OF THE BO’SUN’S YARNS
HELL’S PAVEMENT
SEA-CHANGE
HARBOUR-BAR
THE TURN OF THE TIDE
ONE OF WALLY’S YARNS
A VALEDICTION (LIVERPOOL DOCKS)
A NIGHT AT DAGO TOM’S
‘PORT OF MANY SHIPS’
CAPE HORN GOSPEL—I
CAPE HORN GOSPEL—II
MOTHER CAREY (AS TOLD ME BY THE BO’SUN)
EVENING—REGATTA DAY
A VALEDICTION
A PIER-HEAD CHORUS
THE GOLDEN CITY OF ST. MARY
TRADE WINDS
SEA-FEVER
A WANDERER’S SONG
CARDIGAN BAY
CHRISTMAS EVE AT SEA
A BALLAD OF CAPE ST. VINCENT
THE TARRY BUCCANEER
A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER
LYRICS FROM ‘THE BUCCANEER’
I
II
III
D’AVALOS’ PRAYER
THE WEST WIND
THE GALLEY-ROWERS
SORROW OF MYDATH
VAGABOND
VISION
SPUNYARN
THE DEAD KNIGHT
PERSONAL
ON MALVERN HILL
TEWKESBURY ROAD
ON EASTNOR KNOLL
‘REST HER SOUL, SHE’S DEAD’
‘ALL YE THAT PASS BY’
IN MEMORY OF A. P. R.
TO-MORROW
CAVALIER
A SONG AT PARTING
GLOSSARY
A CONSECRATION
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NOT of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers
Riding triumphantly laurelled to lap the fat of the years,—
Rather the scorned—the rejected—the men hemmed in with the spears;
The men of the tattered battalion which fights till it dies,
Dazed with the dust of the battle, the din and the cries,
The men with the broken heads and the blood running into their eyes.
Not the be-medalled Commander, beloved of the throne,
Riding cock-horse to parade when the bugles are blown,
But the lads who carried the koppie and cannot be known.
Not the ruler for me, but the ranker, the tramp of the road,
The slave with the sack on his shoulders pricked on with the goad,
The man with too weighty a burden, too weary a load.
The sailor, the stoker of steamers, the man with the clout,
The chantyman bent at the halliards putting a tune to the shout,
The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired look-out.
Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth,
The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth;—
Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth!
Theirs
be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold;
Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould.
Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold—
Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told.
Amen.
THE YARN OF THE ‘LOCH ACHRAY’
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The
‘Loch Achray’ was a clipper tall
With seven-and-twenty hands in all.
Twenty to hand and reef and haul,
A skipper to sail and mates to bawl
‘Tally on to the tackle-fall,
Heave now ’n’ start her, heave ’n’ pawl!’
Hear the yarn of a sailor,
An old yarn learned at sea.
Her crew were shipped and they said ‘Farewell,
So-long, my Tottie, my lovely gell;
We sail to-day if we fetch to hell,
It’s time we tackled the wheel a spell.’
Hear the yarn of a sailor,
An old yarn learned at sea.
The dockside loafers talked on the quay
The day that she towed down to sea:
‘Lord, what a handsome ship she be!
Cheer her, sonny boys, three times three!’
And the dockside loafers gave her a shout
As the red-funnelled tug-boat towed her out;
They gave her a cheer as the custom is,