<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sailor's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh for the breath of the briny deep,<br>And the tug of the bellying sail,<br>With the sea-gull's cry across the sky<br>And a passing boatman's hail.<br>For, be she fierce or be she gay,<br>The sea is a famous friend alway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ho! for the plains where the dolphins play,<br>And the bend of the mast and spars,<br>And a fight at night with the wild sea-sprite<br>When the foam has drowned the stars.<br>And, pray, what joy can the landsman feel<br>Like the rise and fall of a sliding keel?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair is the mead; the lawn is fair<br>And the birds sing sweet on the lea;<br>But the echo soft of a song aloft<br>Is the strain that pleases me;<br>And swish of rope and ring of chain<br>Are music to men who sail the main.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, if you love me, let me sail<br>While a vessel dares the deep;<br>For the ship 's my wife, and the breath of life<br>Are the raging gales that sweep;<br>And when I 'm done with calm and blast,<br>A slide o'er the side, and rest at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477582" data-title="A Sailor's Song de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Oh for the breath of the briny deep, And the tug of the bellying sail, With the sea-gull's cry across the sky And a passing boatman's hail. For, be she fierce or be she gay, The sea is a famous friend alway. Ho! for the plains where the dolphins ..."></div> </div> </div>

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