<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Landlubbers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I nigh drops dead (the bo'sun said)<br>When the gist of things I grip<br>In the land by these 'ere Southern seas<br>As I seen on my long last trip.<br>They seems a joke, them curious folk<br> Wot bides at the blue sea's lip,<br>Whose wealth is made in a world-wide trade -<br>Landlubbers all wot seems afraid,<br> For they ain't got a deep-sea ship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, they ain't got a deep-sea ship, they ain't,<br> For their 'earts ain't with the blue,<br>Tho' they claims the seed of the tough sea breed,<br> Like Drake, an' me an' you.<br>On their isle sea-girt they farms the dirt<br> Of a fertile coastal strip;<br>But they seems afraid of a sea-borne trade<br>An' the hauls their British fathers made,<br> For they ain't got a deep-sea ship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sea born an' bred (the bo'sun said)<br> As man an' boy I been<br>Nigh every place on earth's broad face,<br> An' all the seas atween;<br>But I ne'er 'ave spoke such curious folk<br> As I seen on this 'ere trip,<br>Who seeks for marts in furrin parts,<br>Yet for blue water have no hearts;<br> For they ain't got a deep-sea ship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, they ain't got a deep-sea ship, they ain't;<br> An' it don't seem like they care,<br>For they 'ands the job to any ole yob<br> Wot makes a landfall there.<br>In tramp an' tub they ships their grub -<br> Aw, it fair gives me the pip!<br>They've wool an' wine, an' corn an' kine,<br>An' the carryin' trade would suit 'em, fine,<br> But they ain't got a deep-sea ship!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357656" data-title="Landlubbers de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I nigh drops dead (the bo'sun said) When the gist of things I grip In the land by these 'ere Southern seas As I seen on my long last trip. They seems a joke, them curious folk Wot bides at the blue sea's lip, Whose wealth is made in a world-wide ..."></div> </div> </div>

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