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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344141" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pearl Diver</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, <br>Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the sea, <br>Trudged o'er the bed of the ocean, searching industriously. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the pearl-grounds the lugger drifted -- a little white speck: <br>Joe Nagasaki, the "tender", holding the life-line on deck, <br>Talked through the rope to the diver, knew when to drift or to check. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kanzo was king of his lugger, master and diver in one, <br>Diving wherever it pleased him, taking instructions from none; <br>Hither and thither he wandered, steering by stars and by sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fearless he was beyond credence, looking at death eye to eye: <br>This was his formula always, "All man go dead by and by -- <br>S'posing time come no can help it -- s'pose time no come, then no die." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dived in the depths of the Darnleys, down twenty fathom and five; <br>Down where by law, and by reason, men are forbidden to dive; <br>Down in a pressure so awful that only the strongest survive: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweated four men at the air pumps, fast as the handles could go, <br>Forcing the air down that reached him heated and tainted, and slow -- <br>Kanzo Makame the diver stayed seven minutes below; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came up on deck like a dead man, paralysed body and brain; <br>Suffered, while blood was returning, infinite tortures of pain: <br>Sailed once again to the Darnleys -- laughed and descended again! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce grew the shell in the shallows, rarely a patch could they touch; <br>Always the take was so little, always the labour so much; <br>Always they thought of the Islands held by the lumbering Dutch -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Islands where shell was in plenty lying in passage and bay, <br>Islands where divers could gather hundreds of shell in a day. <br>But the lumbering Dutch in their gunboats they hunted the divers away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joe Nagasaki, the "tender", finding the profits grow small, <br>Said, "Let us go to the Islands, try for a number one haul! <br>If we get caught, go to prison -- let them take lugger and all!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kanzo Makame, the diver -- knowing full well what it meant -- <br>Fatalist, gambler, and stoic, smiled a broad smile of content, <br>Flattened in mainsail and foresail, and off to the Islands they went. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close to the headlands they drifted, picking up shell by the ton, <br>Piled up on deck were the oysters, opening wide in the sun, <br>When, from the lee of the headland, boomed the report of a gun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then if the diver was sighted, pearl-shell and lugger must go -- <br>Joe Nagasaki decided (quick was the word and the blow), <br>Cut both the pipe and the life-line, leaving the diver below! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kanzo Makame, the diver, failing to quite understand, <br>Pulled the "haul up" on the life-line, found it was slack in his hand; <br>Then, like a little brown stoic, lay down and died on the sand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joe Nagasaki, the "tender", smiling a sanctified smile, <br>Headed her straight for the gunboat--throwing out shells all the while -- <br>Then went aboard and reported, "No makee dive in three mile! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Dress no have got and no helmet -- diver go shore on the spree; <br>Plenty wind come and break rudder -- lugger get blown out to sea: <br>Take me to Japanee Consul, he help a poor Japanee!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the Dutch let him go; but they watched him, as off from the Islands he ran, <br>Doubting him much -- but what would you? You have to be sure of your man <br>Ere you wake up that nest-ful of hornets -- the little brown men of Japan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down in the ooze and the coral, down where earth's wonders are spread, <br>Helmeted, ghastly, and swollen, Kanzo Makame lies dead. <br>Joe Nagasaki, his "tender", is owner and diver instead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wearer of pearls in your necklace, comfort yourself if you can. <br>These are the risks of the pearling -- these are the ways of Japan; <br>"Plenty more Japanee diver plenty more little brown man!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</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=344141" data-title="The Pearl Diver de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the sea, Trudged o'er the bed of the ocean, searching industriously. 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