The Sailor Boy
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1809 to 1892
Track 1
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'Fool,' he answer'd, 'death is sure
'God help me! save I take my part
But I will nevermore endure
Of danger in the roaring sea,
And in thy heart the scrawl shall play.'
They are all to blame, they are all to blame.
He heard a fierce mermaiden cry,
A devil rises in my heart,
I see the place where thou wilt lie.
My sisters crying "stay for shame;"
'O boy, tho' thou art young and proud,
In caves about the dreary bay,
'My mother clings about my neck,
To sit with empty hands at home.
And reach'd the ship and caught the rope,
He rose at dawn and, fired with hope,
Far worse than any death to me.'
To those that stay and those that roam,
'The sands and yeasty surges mix
And while he whistled long and loud
And on thy ribs the limpet sticks,
And whistled to the morning star.
My father raves of death and wreck,
Shot o'er the seething harbor-bar,
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