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From: kwcorsair (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 16:26:58 EST
Edmund's Tale
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Edmund wished so to be~
A man who sailed the sea~
Younger than his brothers he was~
This lad who claimed just because~
"Because it is & so am I"~
Was an answer he did give~
"For if it may be then so to live~
Sail that sea so shall I"~
So came one day when all was right~
Young Edmund then felt so bright~
A sloop he spied at harbour's end~
Last dollar he then so did spend~
Climbed aboard his tiny sloop~
Brought with him a line & loop~
Cast those tethers from that pier~
Set sailhe did then for nearly a year~
Edmund sailed seas of green~
Sailed seas he'd never seen~
Fought wild winds as best he could~
Strong & bold he knew he would~
One day returned to his harbour old~
No longer that lad from whence had gone~
Nor a man so old & bold~
As could not be heard to sing such silly song~
"Oft I've thought a bit of this~
what e'er was thought as bliss~
Done am I for now so say~
Of seas I'll then now no more play"
"Twas folly that which I did seek~
Of that which then I've had my peek~
Ne'er will nor e'er wish~
To sail a'sea or devour a fish"~
"Old & bold & rich & fat~
I'll grow then in this harbour"~
"A house I'll build & find a cat~
To force me to work yet harder"~
"For surely now I know what is~
The sea & all she owns"~
"Now hear my plea & hear my groans~
Such sea was ne'er great bliss"~
Edmund was a spritely lad~
Yet his step was thus then seen sad~
For in him there was simply naught~
Nor pleasure o'the battles fought~
He'd seen what was an end of time~
Felt a cold wind so blow~
He'd been then there before that line~
Where no man's heart should go~
A sloop now sits at harbour's end~
A'waitin' that next lad~
As wind seeks to this other one send~
A'sea so then for just a tad~
SeaWolf
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--- In , "Capt. D.E. Morehouse"
<kwcorsair at y dot dot dot > wrote:
> Oh... I like a rime
> From time to time
> Just maybe a line or two
> Though often more I often do
>
> Rime of the sea
> Tis a pleasure to me
> Rime of a rime
> With me is just fine
>
> Sail with a song
> You cannot go wrong
> Sail with an eye aloft
> Your breezes should be soft
>
> So here then for you
> Is now a line or two
> Rime rimed ago
> Of thoughts just so
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> "Destined"
>
> So sailed they then o'er seas well spent~
> Torn their skys & mastheads back bent~
> Under their bowsprits well to a'sea~
> From ravages o'wind did'st they then flee~
>
> Down from their bulwarks & under their keels~
> Sharks & Dorados & green Moray eels~
> Mermaids a'singin' shantys o'love~
> Sailin' a'sunder moon black above~
>
> Marseilles & Gibralter they sailed all a'tune~
> Meldemi & Cyclones & greatest Typhoon~
> Thallasa & Caribbean with Sargasso a'drift~
> Sails o'wind & bows so swift~
>
> Madagascar & Seychelles then great Horn~
> O'seas o'which all tales ayre born~
> Azores or Atlantis e'er so wanderin'~
> Oceans depths naught fer a'ponderin'~
>
> Equator crossed once & then twice~
> Tropic of Cancer & towering white ice~
> Gales blown wildly o'Cape Verde's storms~
> Life's blood then of ethereal forms~
>
> Down down down did they go~
> Sailors o'seas when winds did'st so blow~
> Round 'round 'round & about~
> Ships & sailors verily stout~
>
> Cliffs o'Dover & Isle o'Man~
> Fjiords o'Vikings so 'twas a' plan~
> Off then across blue wide & deep~
> They to themselves a promise to keep~
>
> Ne'er again seen were those hands~
> O'ships then so sailed to far distant lands~
> Sails black & torn o'hell bent~
> Hulls a'twisted & minds then well spent~
>
>
> Under they went to bottom at last~
> Down deep steps & into cold past~
> Sailors all & lives o'great deed~
> Years so destined o'hearts in such need~
>
> SeaWolf
> ~~~~~~~~
>
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