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    Songs of Sea and Sail
    Songs of Sea and Sail
    Songs of Sea and Sail
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    Songs of Sea and Sail

    By Thomas Fleming Day

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs of Sea and Sail, by Thomas Fleming Day

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      Title: Songs of Sea and Sail

      Author: Thomas Fleming Day

      Release Date: September 15, 2013 [EBook #43739]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF SEA AND SAIL ***

      Produced by Mark C. Orton, Anna Granta and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

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      Songs of Sea and Sail

      SONGS OF

      SEA AND SAIL

      THOMAS FLEMING DAY

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      THE RUDDER PUBLISHING COMPANY

      1898

      Copyright 1898

      By Thomas Fleming Day

      All Rights Reserved

      Press Of

      Thomson & Co.

      New York

      TO

      THOSE WHO LOVE

      THE SEA

      AND ITS SHIPS.

      [Pg 6]

      [Pg 7]

      CONTENTS.

      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,

      (For so it seems to me),

      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

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