I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life
to the gull's way and the whale's way
where the wind's like a whetted knife
and all I ask is a merry yarn
from a laughing fellow rover
and quiet sleep and a sweet dream
when the long trick's over
Photos: Ezra Caldwell's Putney Sue - more at Ezra's Flickr.
(One of the loveliest bonds between dog and man that I know of)
Poem: Sea Fever by John Masefield.
