Cicely Fox Smith - The Orkney Man

'I've sailed onst with an Orkney man,
A deal o' years ago,' said Dan,
'In Clay's old packet
Kubla Khan
.'

'A feller full o' quare old tales
O' singin' seals, an' stranded whales
As comes ashore in the winter gales.'
'A decent shipmate, too . . . he's dead,
Lost overboard off Java Head
A deal o' years ago,' Dan said.

Cicely Fox Smith

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