<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shipmate Sorrow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was shipmates with Sorrow in a day gone by;<br>We shared the wheel and look-out, old Sorrow and I:<br>Good times and bad times, foul weather and fair,<br>The old grey face of him was always there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was never shanty raised there, never song I heard,<br>But his voice would be in it like a crying bird;<br>I was dull in the dog watches when the laugh went free<br>Because of old Sorrow sitting down by me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought I could lose him in the stir and change<br>Of bright wicked cities all sunlit and strange;<br>There came a hand at my elbow and a voice in my ear -<br>It was patient Sorrow saying: 'Lad, I'm here!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by the bustling harbour, up the busy street,<br>Many a time I see him, many a time I meet<br>The old grey face there of one I used to know . . .<br>And it's old shipmate Sorrow out of long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the watch at the halliards, they may sing with a will,<br>But the voice I used to hear, oh I think I hear it still,<br>Like the wind in a shroud piping, or a seabird's cry . . .<br>And it's old Sorrow singing out of times gone by!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cicely+Fox+Smith">Cicely Fox Smith</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=571953" data-title="Shipmate Sorrow de Cicely Fox Smith" data-description="I was shipmates with Sorrow in a day gone by; We shared the wheel and look-out, old Sorrow and I: Good times and bad times, foul weather and fair, The old grey face of him was always there. There was never shanty raised there, never song I heard,..."></div> </div> </div>

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