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" A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, — And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast : And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. "
The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 149
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 12

1823 - 496 pages
...they refuse to let any one else slip in a word, even edgeways. THE MARINER'S SONG. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And 611s the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys,...
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The North American Review, Volume 23

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...former compositions. We will quote one or two, which we presume are the least familiar to our readers. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And...
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...thirty-eighth year. Propcrtii vita per anno» digerķa. THE MARINER'S SONG. BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. I. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. О for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white...
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The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern: With an Introduction ..., Volume 4

Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And white...
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The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern; with an intr. and notes ..., Volume 2

Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And white...
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The North American Review, Volume 23

Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...former compositions. We will quote one or two, which we presume are the least familiar to our readers. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...can conceive. GENTLEMAN'S MAG. 1793. THE MARINER'S SONG. ... ....., "..'.. : .. .1:.. . ! .. ' - * .' -A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boysrf" While like an eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. . ****....
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The Naval and Military Magazine, Volume 1

Military art and science - 1827 - 700 pages
...to be already sufficiently accurate for every purpose of practical astronomy." THE MARINER'S SONG. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And tills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys...
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...and with gentle whisper said, " Would that destiny had not united us." EXERCISE CII. (Cunningham). A wet sheet, and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...gallant mast : And bends the gallant mast, my boys, 5 While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. 1, 2. While...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...mine; My saul's wi' thee i' the cauld grave, An' why should I stay behin' ? A WET SHEET AXD A FLOWING SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on our lee. " O for a soft and gentle wind ! " I heard a fair one cry; But give to me the swelling breeze,...
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