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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of Bolivar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again,<br> Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain:<br> Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away --<br> We that took the ~Bolivar~ out across the Bay!<br> <br>We put out from Sunderland loaded down with rails;<br> We put back to Sunderland 'cause our cargo shifted;<br>We put out from Sunderland -- met the winter gales --<br> Seven days and seven nights to the Start we drifted.<br> Racketing her rivets loose, smoke-stack white as snow,<br> All the coals adrift adeck, half the rails below,<br> Leaking like a lobster-pot, steering like a dray --<br> Out we took the ~Bolivar~, out across the Bay!<br> <br>One by one the Lights came up, winked and let us by;<br> Mile by mile we waddled on, coal and fo'c'sle short;<br>Met a blow that laid us down, heard a bulkhead fly;<br> Left the ~Wolf~ behind us with a two-foot list to port.<br> Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her soul;<br> Clanging like a smithy-shop after every roll;<br> Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray --<br> So we threshed the ~Bolivar~ out across the Bay!<br> <br>'Felt her hog and felt her sag, betted when she'd break;<br> Wondered every time she raced if she'd stand the shock;<br>Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake;<br> Hoped the Lord 'ud keep his thumb on the plummer-block.<br> Banged against the iron decks, bilges choked with coal;<br> Flayed and frozen foot and hand, sick of heart and soul;<br> Last we prayed she'd buck herself into judgment Day --<br> Hi! we cursed the ~Bolivar~ knocking round the Bay!<br> <br>O her nose flung up to sky, groaning to be still --<br> Up and down and back we went, never time for breath;<br>Then the money paid at Lloyd's caught her by the heel,<br> And the stars ran round and round dancin' at our death.<br> Aching for an hour's sleep, dozing off between;<br> 'Heard the rotten rivets draw when she took it green;<br> 'Watched the compass chase its tail like a cat at play --<br> That was on the ~Bolivar~, south across the Bay.<br> <br>Once we saw between the squalls, lyin' head to swell --<br> Mad with work and weariness, wishin' they was we --<br>Some damned Liner's lights go by like a long hotel;<br> Cheered her from the ~Bolivar~ swampin' in the sea.<br> Then a grayback cleared us out, then the skipper laughed;<br> &quot;Boys, the wheel has gone to Hell -- rig the winches aft!<br> Yoke the kicking rudder-head -- get her under way!&quot;<br> So we steered her, pulley-haul, out across the Bay!<br> <br>Just a pack o' rotten plates puttied up with tar,<br>In we came, an' time enough, 'cross Bilbao Bar.<br> Overloaded, undermanned, meant to founder, we<br> Euchred God Almighty's storm, bluffed the Eternal Sea!<br> <br> Seven men from all the world, back to town again,<br> Rollin' down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain:<br> Seven men from out of Hell. Ain't the owners gay,<br> 'Cause we took the &quot;Bolivar&quot; safe across the Bay?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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 Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain:
 Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away --
 We that took the ~Bolivar~ out across the Bay!
 
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