<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511037" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lowestoft Boat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">East Coast Patrols of the War, 1914-18</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In Lowestoft a boat was laid,<br>Mark well what I do say!<br>And she was built for the herring-trade,<br>But she has gone a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin',<br>The Lord knows where!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They gave her Government coal to burn,<br>And a Q.F. gun at bow and stern,<br>And sent her out a-rovin', etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her skipper was mate of a bucko ship<br>Which always killed one man per trip,<br>So he is used to rovin', etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her mate was skipper of a chapel in Wales,<br>And so he fights in topper and tails--<br>Religi-ous tho' rovin', etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her engineer is fifty-eight,'<br>So he's prepared to meet his fate,<br>Which ain't unlikely rovin', etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her leading-stoker's seventeen,<br>So he don't know what the Judgments mean,<br>Unless he cops 'em rovin', etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her cook was chef in the Lost Dogs' Home,<br>Mark well what I do say!<br>And I'm sorry for Fritz when they all come<br>A-rovin', a-rovin', a-roarin' and a-rovin',<br>Round the North Sea rovin',<br>The Lord knows where!</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> <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=511037" data-title="The Lowestoft Boat de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="East Coast Patrols of the War, 1914-18 In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But she has gone a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin', The Lord knows where! They gave her Government coal to burn, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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