<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tom Deadlight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,--<br>Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain,<br>For I've received orders for to sail for the<br>Deadman,<br>But hope with the grand fleet to see you<br>again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have hove my ship to, with main-top-sail<br>aback, boys;<br>I have hove my ship to, for the strike<br>soundings clear--<br>The black scud a'flying; but, by God's blessing,<br>dam' me,<br>Right up the Channel for the Deadman I'll<br>steer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have worried through the waters that are<br>called the Doldrums,<br>And growled at Sargasso that clogs while ye<br>grope--<br>Blast my eyes, but the light-ship is hid by the<br>mist, lads:--<br>_Flying Dutchman_--odds bobbs--off the<br>Cape of Good Hope!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what's this I feel that is fanning my cheek,<br>Matt?<br>The white goney's wing?--how she rolls!--<br>'t is the Cape!--<br>Give my kit to the mess, Jock, for kin none is<br>mine, none;<br>And tell _Holy Joe_ to avast with the crape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead reckoning, says _Joe_, it won't do to go by;<br>But they doused all the glims, Matt, in sky<br>t' other night.<br>Dead reckoning is good for to sail for the<br>Deadman;<br>And Tom Deadlight he thinks it may reckon<br>near right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The signal!--it streams for the grand fleet to<br>anchor.<br>The captains--the trumpets--the hullabaloo!<br>Stand by for blue-blazes, and mind your<br>shank-painters,<br>For the Lord High Admiral, he's squinting<br>at you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But give me my _tot_, Matt, before I roll over;<br>Jock, let's have your flipper, it's good for to<br>feel;<br>And don't sew me up without _baccy_ in mouth,<br>boys,<br>And don't blubber like lubbers when I turn<br>up my keel.</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> <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=409990" data-title="Tom Deadlight de Herman Melville" data-description="Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties,-- Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain, For I've received orders for to sail for the Deadman, But hope with the grand fleet to see you again. I have hove my ship to, with main-top-sail aback, boys; I..."></div> </div> </div>

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