A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. My fourth (-sixth) - Page 112by Scottish school-book assoc - 1867Full view - About this book
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