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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365914" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Daisy Bree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood back on the quay and watched them<br>Raise the anchor, trim the sail, <br>Haul the spinnaker up to catch<br>The gusting breeze once under way; <br>They slipped out past the Harbour gates<br>And with them went my heart, my dreams, <br>As bitter fortune made it plain<br>That life is never all it seems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend from childhood, Roger Cain, <br>My childhood sweetheart, Alice Drew, <br>They'd tied the knot an hour before<br>In secrecy, I never knew! <br>I'd thought that we had time enough<br>To sort it out, she'd made it plain: <br>'You either marry me, or else...'<br>She'd patted down the counterpane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't see her then for days, <br>She'd said that she was overdue, <br>I mulled it over in my mind<br>Not knowing what to say, or do.<br>I should have said I'd marry her, <br>I should have said a lot of things, <br>It's only through our own mistakes<br>We find out what misfortune brings! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd thought that I could trust a friend, <br>That love was steadfast, strong and true, <br>I'd thought that I could make amends<br>Not knowing what she'd think or do.<br>She'd thought more of her name, it seemed, <br>The fear of scandal muted love, <br>And Roger, he just took his chance, <br>Proposed, and she just thought, 'Enough! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd sailed as boys out in the bay, <br>We'd dreamed of owning ketches, yachts, <br>When Roger's father died, he left<br>Him everything, and that was lots! <br>He bought an old-time sailing yacht<br>With work to do, the 'Daisy Bree', <br>And left me on the shore while he<br>Went gallivanting out to sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd grown apart, for well I knew<br>That he had lit a torch for her, <br>My Alice Drew, who thought it sweet<br>But I... I felt my anger stir! <br>He showed her over the 'Daisy Bree', <br>She helped him clean the galley there, <br>I should have nipped it in the bud, <br>Or at the least, been more aware! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now they had gone, a honeymoon, <br>To sail away to Hobart Town, <br>I wandered off the quay in tears, <br>I drank until my feelings drowned.<br>I heard they'd got there safely, then<br>Were heading out to sail due west, <br>And that was all! Three weeks went by, <br>The 'Daisy Bree' was listed - 'Lost! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mind was in a torment, bleeding<br>Blamed myself each day, anew, <br>She came into my dreams, just pleading, <br>'Rescue me! ' said Alice Drew.<br>Thinking of the seed she'd carried, <br>Of the child I'd never see, <br>I cursed the name of Roger Cain<br>For bringing on this misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Search and Rescue people flew<br>A thousand miles of ocean squared, <br>But not a sign of the 'Daisy Bree'<br>Was seen, or so I overheard.<br>'They may have been blown way off course, '<br>I heard a captain tell his mate, <br>'Down in Antarctic waters there, <br>I can't think of a crueler fate! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I flew the fifth week down to Hobart, <br>Phantoms roamed my tired mind, <br>Alice now was lean and drawn, <br>With sunken eyes, she looked quite blind.<br>Every time I slept she came<br>And glared at me across the sea, <br>Icebergs floated by in dreams<br>As she croaked: 'Find the Daisy Bree! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went to rent a yacht myself, <br>One I could manage on my own, <br>I didn't want to raise alarms<br>My destination, then unknown! <br>I sailed out in the dead of night<br>And headed south, so I could see<br>If I could put to bed at night<br>All hope, or find the 'Daisy Bree'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For days I sailed, the seas grew high<br>The 'Aspen' wallowed in each trough, <br>I rugged up well and stayed awake<br>Invigored by the coffee pot.<br>I started seeing floating icebergs<br>Broken from some distant shore, <br>My eyes grew weaker by the day...<br>I wondered what I'd come here for? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another week went by, and I<br>Had turned to rest my weary head<br>When out to starboard, there I saw<br>A sight that filled my soul with dread! <br>A yacht with sails that blew in tatters, <br>Stripped and iced, it wallowed free, <br>Straining through a 'scope, I saw<br>The legend there, the 'Daisy Bree'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waiting 'til the wind had dropped<br>I pulled along the side to check, <br>Lashed her fast to 'Aspen's' side<br>Then leapt aboard the ice bound deck. <br>Kicked the cabin door to break<br>The ice that sealed it from the sea, <br>Down the steps, into the cabin, <br>Down inside the 'Daisy Bree'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roger lay there in the passage<br>Stripped and cold and very dead, <br>One arm missing from the shoulder, <br>One great gash across his head.<br>Alice sat both fat and wizened<br>Blind, but wary in the dark, <br>'Listen child, ' she whispered, 'Harken! '<br>Then picked up her knife and fork! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">3 August 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Raise the anchor, trim the sail, 
Haul the spinnaker up to catch
The gusting breeze once under way; 
They slipped out past the Harbour gates
And with them went my heart, my dreams, 
As bitter fortune made ..."></div>
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