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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3401, 15 November 1879, Page 1

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THE WHALER FLEET.

Full merrily sailed our whaler floet ' ■, When tho wind blew oat to sea; And many a one came forth to greet 1 Each good ship's company. For there was the Dove and the Good Intent (How the wind blew out to sea f) ;■'>'<' And tho Polly o 1 Sleights with her bran-nsw sails; , : : ■:<•.-. But the Mary Jane for me! ■.-■-■' Oh, Captain Thwaites of the Mary Jane,' When the wiiid blew out to sea, Full many a time his ship had sailed, Fnll many a time had he. Ho has Jack of Grosmont and Tom o 1 th« - Straith, (How the wind blew out to sea!) And Handsome Jim from Hayburn Wyke; But'twas Robin Hood Will for me. ■ . My Willy ho kissed me before them all, . When the wind blew ont to sea; My Willy hejßtqod the laat on deck A-waving his cap to me. . . .; \ So off they sailed out over the main, j While the-wind blew ont to sea; Till the ice was under their beamidbowj, - And the ice drove under their lee. The raonrlis they went and the iCflntns' "ti&f

■, came, And the winti blew hard at soa; --. .- Arid muuy a rin-^-i in tho stormy mglite. ■ - - My mammy she- wepii vtiVn me.- . ;j .. Bnt wheji the harvest moon came round, And the wiutl blew in front tho sea, ■• " 'Twa'a memb^Bjtfcnr whaler Jieeu" All lioinej|^^ppe north country. The fol|rjP|Wjled and the folk they ran, Aid the,wind blew in from the sea; ■ - From tlie thick of the towii to tho light*. .' ■" house tower : : '•■"«."• ' T'was throng us throiig could be.

I saw. tliem a-top of the old church stairs, When the wind blew in from the sea; ",. And tho waves dashed under their beamed bows; • " Em- > And the foam dashed under their W*F I saw them at foot of the old chiiren*Bfcairi,! When the wind blew in froii the sea; And tho foremost ship of our whaler fleet Was rounding tho lighthouse quay. ■ Oh, there's the Dove and the Good Intent, (Still tho wind blows in from the sea) And the red .red. sails ■ of the Polly o* Sleights^— . ■ ■ ' • Her moii are .plain to see. .-, . : ->;;

Now evoiy each lath passed the bar, And the wind blows in from the sea; '", And' every each' in the harbour lies," ' llight np against the qnay. _ '" *" /* But where, oh where, is the Mary Jane, - •-■ Now the wind blows in from the sea ? • '"■' There's many a lad hath clipt his lane, " " ■ t:"h And when will my lad clip me ?'• "-•''-'■ " Oh tell mo where is the Mary Jane, For the wind blows in from tho.sea ? " i - > " Tho'Mary Jane went down by.her head, ' With all her company.",' Now take me home to my mammy so dear, Though the wind blow's in from the sea; There's never a billow rolls over my lad," ' * But I wish it rolled o'er me! '■ And. take mo home for I care not now. -.-.*.».- If tho wind blows in from the sea: My Willy he lios in the deeps of the dead, But his heart lives on in me. Akthcr J. Munbt.