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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christmas At Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;<br>The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;<br>The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea;<br>And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They heard the surf a-roaring before the break of day;<br>But 'twas only with the peep of light we saw how ill we lay.<br>We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout,<br>And we gave her the maintops'l, and stood by to go about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All day we tacked and tacked between the South Head and the North;<br>All day we hauled the frozen sheets, and got no further forth;<br>All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread,<br>For very life and nature we tacked from head to head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tide race roared;<br>But every tack we made we brought the North Head close aboard:<br>So's we saw the cliffs and houses, and the breakers running high,<br>And the coastguard in his garden, with his glass against his eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;<br>The good red fires were burning bright in every 'long-shore home;<br>The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;<br>And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bells upon the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer;<br>For it's just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year)<br>This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas morn,<br>And the house above the coastguard's was the house where I was born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there,<br>My mother's silver spectacles, my father's silver hair;<br>And well I saw the firelight, like a flight of homely elves,<br>Go dancing round the china plates that stand upon the shelves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me,<br>Of the shadow on the household and the son that went to sea;<br>And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way,<br>To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed Christmas Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lit the high sea-light, and the dark began to fall.<br>'All hands to loose top gallant sails,' I heard the captain call.<br>'By the Lord, she'll never stand it,' our first mate, Jackson, cried.<br>. . . 'It's the one way or the other, Mr. Jackson,' he replied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She staggered to her bearings, but the sails were new and good,<br>And the ship smelt up to windward just as though she understood.<br>As the winter's day was ending, in the entry of the night,<br>'We cleared the weary headland, and passed below the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me,<br>As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;<br>But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,<br>Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a><div class=q>
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The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;
The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea;
And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee.

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