<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Valediction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,<br>It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go;<br>The crowd's at the capstan and the tune's in the shout,<br>"A long pull, a strong pull, and warp the hooker out."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bow-wash is eddying, spreading from the bows,<br>Aloft and loose the topsails and some one give a rouse;<br>A salt-Atlantic chanty shall be music to the dead,<br>"A long pull, a strong pull, and the yard to the masthead."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shrilly squeal the running sheaves, the weather-gear strains,<br>Such a clatter of chain-sheets, the devil's in the chains;<br>Over us the bright stars, under us the drowned,<br>"A long pull, a strong pull, and we're outward bound."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yonder, round and ruddy, is the mellow old moon,<br>The red-funnelled tug has gone, and now, sonny, soon<br>We'll be clear of the Channel, so watch how you steer,<br>"Ease her when she pitches, and so-long, my dear."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Masefield">John Masefield</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=589025" data-title="A Valediction de John Masefield" data-description="We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow,/It's time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go;/The crowd's at the capstan and the tune's in the shout,/"A long pull, a strong pull, and warp the hooker out."/The bow-wash is eddying, sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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