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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Nautical Ballad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A capital ship for an ocean trip,<br>Was the 'Walloping Window-blind';<br>No gale that blew dismayed her crew<br>Or troubled the captain's mind.<br>The man at the wheel was taught to feel<br>Contempt for the wildest blow,<br>And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,<br>That he'd been in his bunk below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The boatswain's mate was very sedate,<br>Yet fond of amusement, too;<br>And he played hop-scotch with the starboard watch,<br>While the captain tickled the crew.<br>And the gunner we had was apparently mad,<br>For he sat on the after rail,<br>And fired salutes with the captain's boots,<br>In the teeth of the booming gale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The captain sat in a commodore's hat<br>And dined in a royal way<br>On toasted pigs and pickles and figs<br>And gummery bread each day.<br>But the cook was Dutch and behaved as such;<br>For the diet he gave the crew<br>Was a number of tons of hot-cross buns<br>Prepared with sugar and glue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'All nautical pride we laid aside,<br>And we cast the vessel ashore<br>On the Gulliby Isles, where the Poohpooh smiles,<br>And the Rumbletumbunders roar.<br>And we sat on the edge of a sandy ledge<br>And shot at the whistling bee;<br>And the cinnamon-bats wore water-proof hats<br>As they danced in the sounding sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'On rubgub bark, from dawn to dark,<br>We fed, till we all had grown<br>Uncommonly shrunk,—when a Chinese junk<br>Came by from the torriby zone.<br>She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care,<br>And we cheerily put to sea;<br>And we left the crew of the junk to chew<br>The bark of the rubgub tree.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Edward+Carryl">Charles Edward Carryl</a><div class=q>
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Was the 'Walloping Window-blind';
No gale that blew dismayed her crew
Or troubled the captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow,
And it often appeared, when the weather ..."></div>
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