<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cap'n Storm-Along</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Sea-lark<br>singing to <br>Golden Feather<br>,<br>And burly blue waters all swelling aroun'.<br>There's <br>Thunderstone<br>butting ahead as they wallow,<br>With death in the mesh of their deep-sea trawl;<br>There's <br>Night-hawk<br>swooping by wild <br>Sea-swallow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And old Cap'n Storm-along leading 'em all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bashing the seas to a welter of white,<br>Look at the fleet that he leads to the fight.<br>O, they're dancing like witches to open the ball;<br>And old Cap'n Storm-along's lord of 'em all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now, where have you seen such a bully old sailor?<br>His eyes are as blue as the scarf at his throat;<br>And he rolls on the bridge of his broad-beamed whaler,<br>In yellow sou'-wester and oilskin coat.<br>In trawler and drifter, in dinghy and dory,<br>Wherever he signals, they leap to his call;<br>They batter the seas to a lather of glory,<br>With old Cap'n Storm-along leading 'em all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You'll find he's from Devon, the sailor I mean;<br>Look at his whaler now, shipping it green.<br>O, Fritz and his 'U'-boat must crab it and crawl<br>When old Cap'n Storm-along sails to the ball.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ay, there is the skipper that knows how to scare 'em</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!&mdash:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look at the sea-wives he keeps in his harem,<br>Wicked young merry-maids, buxom and brown :<br>There's <br>Rosalind,<br>the sea-witch, and <br>Gipsy<br>so lissom,<br>All dancing like ducks in the teeth of the squall,<br>With a bright eye for Huns, and a Hotchkiss to kiss 'em;<br>For old Cap'n Storm-along's lord of 'em all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Look at him, battering darkness to light!<br>Look at the fleet that he leads to the fight!<br>O, hearts that are mighty, in ships that are small,<br>Your old Cap'n Storm-along's king of us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341797" data-title="Cap'n Storm-Along de Alfred Noyes" data-description="They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather, -Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!- Sea-lark singing to Golden Feather , And burly blue waters all swelling aroun'. There's Thunderstone butting ahead as they wallow, With death ..."></div> </div> </div>

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