Page:Salt-water poems and ballads by Masefield, John, 1878-1967 Published 1916.djvu/11

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR The foremast broke

  • ' Lord, what a handsome ship she be ! "

It blew like the Bull of Barney, a beast of a breeze ' N' the ninth night out, in the middle-watch, I woke from a pleasant dream Yonder, round and ruddy, is the mellow old moon Out beyond the sunset, could I but find the way I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky The bursting west was like an opening flower So the night passed, but then no morning broke They heard the launch men shout . Came to an anchor near us on the flood . " Put back with all her sails gone, went the word Frontispiece FACING PAGE 4 i6 20 54 58 72 80 90 114 130 138 vu