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PAGE The Mermaid's Song 9 Trafalgar 13 When 18 The Forsaken Port 19 An Early Moonset 24 On the Bridge 25 Missing 30 Making Land 31 At Portsmouth 35 At Anchor 39 From the Cliff 40 Then and Now 42 The Ships 43 The Man-o'-War's Man's Yarn 49 A Foggy Morning 53 Unknown 55 The Coasters 57 To-Day 62 The Sailor of the Sail 63 The Yacht 68 The Trade Wind's Song 69 Execution Rock Light 71 The Cargo Boats 73 Noontide Calm 77 Old Buccaneer's Song 81 The Belfry of the Sea 85 Phantoms 95 Flotsam 98 The Lost Ship 99 The Main Sheet Song 101 The Landfall 103 The Clipper 104 The Constitution 105 The Tartar 107 Warning 110 In September 111 The Homeward Bounder's Song 113 The Spell of the Sea 115 Days of Oak 117 Long, Long Ago 119 Wind Happy Ships 122 The Quest 123
THE MERMAID'S SONG.
Oh, what comes flowing over the sea In the hush of the evening's cool? It is a mermaid singing to me As she sits in a silver pool.
As she sits in a silver pool and sings Of the world I never shall see, Where the dulse-weed clings, And the star-fish rings The red anemone; The world which lies Where human eyes Are never allowed to see The gold and gems And fluted stems Of the crimson coral tree-- Is that what she sings to me? She is haunting and holding my heart with a strain, Where joy lies asleep in the shadow of pain; And the world that is under the sea Is spreading its pleasures and treasures to gain The love that lies dormant in me-- The love that I bear for the sea, For the secret and sorrowful sea; Is luring my feet from the gray land again And filling my soul with the scent of the main, The sound and the scent of the sea; And the speech of the siren is spoken in vain, For that mermaid is singing to me Of the world that is under the sea; And the love that I bear for the ocean again, For the mournful and mutable sea, Has taken possession of me: My heart is enmeshed in the mystical strain That mermaid is singing to me Of the world that lies under the sea. Ah, hark again! In a sadder strain She is singing a song to me-- A song of the unseen sea; She is singing of ships whose wrecks have lain For ages in the sea, In the depths of the sunless sea; And her voice is soft with a thought of the pain That song is giving to me. A thought that I thought forever had lain In the depths of the soundless sea Is searching my soul in that mermaid's strain And bringing a sorrow to me From the world that is under the sea. For I have a friend whose bones have lain For ages in the sea, , And her song has opened that wound again And brought back a sorrow to me-- From the depths of the endless sea. A grief that is grieving my life again, A thought that I thought, forever had lain, And never come back to me, Is searching my soul in that mermaid's strain And bringing a sorrow to me From the world that lies under the sea.
Oh, what comes flowing over the sea In the hush of the evening's cool? It is a mermaid singing to me As she sits in a silver pool.
TRAFALGAR, 1805.
We hailed the morning star Above the Spanish shore; Our cannon's random roar Then woke black Trafalgar. Where our foes Lay in the crescent bay We watched the fog bank gray Melt silently away As the sun uprose. Then rolled the deep alarm-- The foeman's call to arm; And swiftly from our van There pass'd from man to man, "They will fight." With hearts that beat to chase We caught the growing gale, And 'neath a press of sail Bore up to take our place On the right.
Nelson, our admiral then, Greatest of all seamen, We cheered to death again As he pass'd; 'Round toward the land We tacked and stood about-- The hills rang to our shout As lifted and blew out His last command From the mast. Then flash'd our full broadside, Roaring across the tide, As crashing side by side We broke their line; Thro' rolling clouds of smoke Burst in our prows of oak; Their tall sides bent and broke Like pine. As died the stagger'd blast The sails dropt to the mast; That broadside was their last! One more to clip her wing! Quick away! Tigers our boarders spring, Cutlass to cutlass ring, In the fray. We heard no quarter call: A man stood every Gaul! Useless, their flag must fall That day.
The fight thus well begun, We paused a breathing space; Each soul leapt to a face As Nelson in his grace Signaled "Well done!" Staying the tott'ring mast We rounded to the blast, Grappled the next that pass'd-- A huge Spaniard. No room to lift the ports: Black gun to gun retorts-- Lip locked to lip, Each man a firmer grip On his lanyard. To save this pride of Spain A Frenchman joined the fight; Then roaring in our might We smote him with our right Twice, and again. "Cease! Cease!" our Captain cries. "She lies A silent wreck!" Three times we spared that foe, Yet from her came the blow That laid our hero low On the deck.
What more for me to say, Save thro' the fatal fray We marked the hours that day With cheers! Our foes struck one by one; Yet when the fight was done We saw the misty sun Set thro' our tears. O England, strong yet free, The crown we bear to thee, Laurels for victory! Weave cypress in the wreath: For he to whom thou gave The keeping of the wave, Nelson, the true, the brave, Has struck his flag to death.
Oh, men of hero race, In what a fitting place To set his conquering star!-- Amid the battle's roar, Under the rolling shore Where rises wild and hoar Cape Trafalgar.
WHEN.
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