<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Drunken Sailor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stood there shouting at the night<br>At trees and all around<br>He stood there swaying side to side<br>A madness man yet proud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never lost his footing once<br>He danced a dance wild mad<br>I stood there watching for a while<br>And wondered what thing had<br>Made him the drunken sailor<br>Had made him curse the earth<br>Had made him babble endlessly<br>How long had he been berthed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three years sailing, sailing hard<br>He had been away<br>He was just back<br>Two days ashore<br>Had made him act this way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I asked the drunken sailor<br>Was it grief or loss at sea? <br>His eyes gazed at me strangely<br>And looked quite straight through me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not grog he said with spitting words<br>Not grief and, no, not anger<br>Have side-showed me on solid ground<br>And made me my own stranger<br>My sea legs that have gone you see<br>And though this warm earth's still<br>I have sway from side to side<br>It's quite beyond my will<br>The rolling sea's a bitch you know<br>More then any lover<br>You ride and ride and ride it hard<br>And then, when you recover, <br>You find the sea now owns your legs<br>Owns too your salted soul<br>So, when you are back on dry land<br>You somehow do not know<br>How to stop the bucking bitch<br>How to be becalmed<br>You stand there screaming at the earth<br>For it to be aroused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without a moving deck, he said<br>We feel as if we're dead<br>It's commonplace with sailors<br>And we become the wrecks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</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=364362" data-title="The Drunken Sailor de David Keig" data-description="He stood there shouting at the night At trees and all around He stood there swaying side to side A madness man yet proud. He never lost his footing once He danced a dance wild mad I stood there watching for a while And wondered what thing had Mad..."></div> </div> </div>

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