StoryTitle("caps", "The Whale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was in the year of ninety-four, in March the twentieth day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our gallant tars their anchors weighed, and for sea they bore away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And for sea they bore away. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(63, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Speedicut was our captain's name, our ship was the Lyon bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we had gone to sea, brave boys, to face the storm and cold.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that we came to the cold country ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the frost and the snow did lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the frost and the snow, and the whale-fish so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "blue and the daylight's never gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the daylight's never gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our boatswain went to topmost high, with his spy-glass in his hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"A whale, a whale, a whale,\" he did cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"And she blows at every span.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our captain stood on the quarter deck, and a clever ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "little man was he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Overhaul, overhaul, let the wind-tackle fall, and ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "to launch your boats so free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to launch your boats so free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's harpooneers, and line coilers, and line colecks also;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's boat-steerers and sailors brave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the whale, to where she blows, to the whale, to where she blows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the whale, to where she blows.", "") ?>
PagePoem(64, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We struck the whale, and away she went, casts a flourish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "with her tail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Oh, and alas, we've lost one man, and we did not kill the whale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we did not kill that whale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that the news to our captain it did come, a sorrowful ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "man was he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the losing of his prentice boy, and down his colours drew he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And down his colours drew he.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now, my lads, don't be amazed for the losing of one man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For fortune it will take its place, let a man do all he can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let a man do all he can. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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