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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365961" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Monster & Captain Kreel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were out in the North Atlantic<br>When the storm began to blow, <br>We reefed in the tops and gallants so<br>We wouldn't end down below, <br>The ship was tossed in a fury, <br>The mate was strapped to the wheel, <br>There wasn't a dry man left aboard, <br>Not even Captain Kreel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Captain, he was a bully, <br>He would flog 'til his arm was sore, <br>He drove the men at their stations 'til<br>They couldn't have taken more, <br>He kept a rope at the yardarm, <br>A warning to every man, <br>His word was not to be questioned if<br>A tar didn't want to hang! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each wave was a liquid mountain<br>That crashed on the after deck, <br>The wind was a screaming banshee that<br>Would threaten, despair and wreck, <br>When out from below there came a scream, <br>A woman, so fair of face, <br>But the Captain swore an ugly oath<br>That the ship was in disgrace! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wife of an able seaman, <br>He'd smuggled the girl aboard, <br>He'd thought he could keep her hidden there<br>Until they went ashore, <br>But the men with their superstitions<br>Then blamed her for the storm, <br>They seized her, dragged to the gunnels<br>And would hurry her overboard! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Captain barked out an order, <br>The jack tars staggered back, <br>They wouldn't defy their Captain if<br>The ship was under attack! <br>The mate then seized the woman<br>And bared her at the breast, <br>Turned her to face the heaving sea<br>As she stood there, half undressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bare breasted, like the figurehead<br>They carried on the prow, <br>A woman was known to calm the seas<br>If she shamed its gods somehow, <br>The wind died down in the stays and yards<br>And the sea died down as well, <br>But she little knew as she covered up<br>She approached the gates of hell! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seaman was court-martialled, <br>Up there, on the quarter deck, <br>Where the Captain gave no quarter, <br>It was keel haul, or his neck! <br>They tied the rope around his chest<br>And flung him overboard, <br>We heaved on the rope, and prayed he'd hold<br>His breath 'til he came aboard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We dragged him under the water, <br>And felt him under the keel, <br>The rope was a little bit lighter<br>Than the brow of Captain Kreel, <br>For he was a livid monster<br>Who just wanted the seaman dead, <br>His plans for the wife were plain to see<br>As he sent her to his bed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seaman's body surfaced, <br>It wasn't going well, <br>We hauled him over the side of the ship<br>'Til we caught a glimpse of hell, <br>The rope was knotted about his chest<br>And twisted around his neck, <br>There was nothing at all below the waist, <br>As his entrails sprayed the deck! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the Captain blanched at this<br>But he motioned us away, <br>'Toss the remains all overboard<br>Then swab the decks - Belay! '<br>We wondered how Jones was cut in half, <br>It couldn't have been the keel, <br>But kept our mutterings to ourselves, <br>For fear of the monster, Kreel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out on the starboard side we saw<br>A giant head appear, <br>Just as the body hit the waves<br>It reared, and sniffed the air, <br>Then pounced on the human morsel, <br>Picked it up in its savage jaw, <br>As we shrank on back at its evil eye<br>It gave out a primitive roar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There wasn't a moment from then on<br>We weren't all chilled inside, <br>The monster followed and circled us<br>As we rode the heaving tide, <br>It must have been eighty feet or more, <br>A great, carnivorous beast, <br>The serpent had tasted human flesh<br>And we were a human feast! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wind had dropped, the sails were limp, <br>We couldn't sail for home, <br>We were caught in the theme of a nightmare dream<br>Where the beasts of the world could roam, <br>The Captain kept to his cabin then, <br>We could hear the woman plead, <br>With a monster within, a monster without<br>We were caught in a monstrous creed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's all the fault of that woman there! '<br>I knew what the ratings thought, <br>'We need to be throwing her overboard<br>To escape the luck she brought! '<br>The mate came down and roused them out, <br>'There'll be no talk of this, <br>We have to get under sail tonight<br>When the wind begins to rise.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Captain showed on the quarter-deck<br>Just after the seventh bell, <br>The sun was down in the west, the moon<br>Was riding high, as well.<br>We raised the sails as the shadows loomed, <br>Unfurled topgallant stays, <br>I was watching the Captain against the moon<br>His back to the after rail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The serpent's head loomed large above<br>The figure of Captain Kreel, <br>The hairs rose up on the back of my neck<br>As I watched the shadows steal.<br>It opened up with its mighty jaw<br>Clamped down on the Captain's head, <br>Lifted him clear of the quarter deck<br>As he screamed - 'Oh God! I'm dead! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We never saw Captain Kreel again, <br>But nobody seemed to care, <br>We sailed for the Falkland Islands then, <br>And we left the woman there, <br>I heard she married again, sometime, <br>To a sailor known as Kip, <br>And dreams of her home in Pompey, but -<br>They won't let her onto a ship! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">24 December 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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When the storm began to blow, 
We reefed in the tops and gallants so
We wouldn't end down below, 
The ship was tossed in a fury, 
The mate was strapped to the wheel, 
There wasn't a dry man left aboard, 
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