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Title: Ballads of Lost Haven
A Book of the Sea
Author: Bliss Carman
Release Date: April 27, 2006 [EBook #18268]
Language: English
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Ballads of Lost Haven
_A Book of the Sea_
By BLISS CARMAN
_Author of_ Low Tide on Grand Pr��, Behind the Arras, Songs from Vagabondia, &c.
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Lamson, Wolffe and Company Boston, New York and London
MDCCCXCVII
Copyright, 1897
by Lamson, Wolffe and Company
_All rights reserved_
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
Contents
PAGE
A SON OF THE SEA 7
THE GRAVEDIGGER 8
THE YULE GUEST 12
THE MARRING OF MALYN 26
THE NANCY'S PRIDE 43
ARNOLD, MASTER OF THE SCUD 48
THE SHIPS OF ST. JOHN 55
THE KING OF YS 59
THE KELPIE RIDERS 68
NOONS OF POPPY 93
LEGENDS OF LOST HAVEN 95
THE SHADOW BOATSWAIN 98
THE MASTER OF THE ISLES 104
THE LAST WATCH 110
OUTBOUND 116
A SON OF THE SEA
I was born for deep-sea faring;?I was bred to put to sea;?Stories of my father's daring?Filled me at my mother's knee.
I was sired among the surges;?I was cubbed beside the foam;?All my heart is in its verges,?And the sea wind is my home.
All my boyhood, from far vernal?Bourns of being, came to me?Dream-like, plangent, and eternal?Memories of the plunging sea.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old,?And well his work is done.?With an equal grave for lord and knave,?He buries them every one.
Then hoy and rip, with a rolling hip,?He makes for the nearest shore;?And God, who sent him a thousand ship,?Will send