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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jack Roy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kept up by relays of generations young<br>Never dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;<br>While in sands, sounds, and seas where the<br>storm-petrels cry,<br>Dropped mute around the globe, these halyard<br>singers lie.<br>Short-lived the clippers for racing-cups that<br>run,<br>And speeds in life's career many a lavish<br>mother's-son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thou, manly king o' the old _Splendid's_<br>crew,<br>The ribbons o' thy hat still a-fluttering, should<br>fly--<br>A challenge, and forever, nor the bravery<br>should rue.<br>Only in a tussle for the starry flag high,<br>When 'tis piety to do, and privilege to die.<br>Then, only then, would heaven think to lop<br>Such a cedar as the captain o' the _Splendid's_<br>main-top:<br>A belted sea-gentleman; a gallant, off-hand<br>Mercutio indifferent in life's gay command.<br>Magnanimous in humor; when the splintering<br>shot fell,<br>'Tooth-picks a-plenty, lads; thank 'em with a<br>shell!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sang Larry o' the _Cannakin,_ smuggler o' the<br>wine,<br>At mess between guns, lad in jovial recline:<br>'In Limbo our Jack he would chirrup up a<br>cheer,<br>The martinet there find a chaffing mutineer;<br>From a thousand fathoms down under hatches<br>o' your Hades,<br>He'd ascend in love-ditty, kissing fingers to<br>your ladies!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never relishing the knave, though allowing<br>for the menial,<br>Nor overmuch the king, Jack, nor prodigally<br>genial.<br>Ashore on liberty he flashed in escapade,<br>Vaulting over life in its levelness of grade,<br>Like the dolphin off Africa in rainbow<br>a-sweeping--<br>Arch iridescent shot from seas languid<br>sleeping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Larking with thy life, if a joy but a toy,<br>Heroic in thy levity wert thou, Jack Roy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q>
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Never dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;
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Dropped mute around the globe, these halyard
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