Ballads And Barrack-Room Ballads: And Barrack-Room Ballads
Ballads And Barrack-Room Ballads: And Barrack-Room Ballads
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
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One by one the Lights came up, winked and let us by; Mile by mile we waddled on, coal and fo'c'sle short; Met a blow that laid us down, heard a bulkhead fly; Left The Wolf behind us with a two foot-list to port. Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her soul; Clanging like a smithy-shop after every roll; Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray — So we threshed the 'Bolivar ' out across the Bay ! Felt her hog and felt her sag, betted when she'd break; Wondered every time she race...d if she'd stand the shock; THE 'BOLIVAR' 71 Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake; Hoped the Lord 'ud keep his thumb on the plummer-block. Banged against the iron decks, bilges choked with coal; Flayed and frozen foot and hand, sick of heart and soul; 'Last we prayed she'd buck herself into Judg- ment Day — Hi! we cursed the 'Bolivar* knocking round the Bay! Oh ! her nose flung up to sky, groaning to be still — Up and down and back we went, never time for breath; Then the money paid at Lloyd's caught her by the heel.
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