Posted by Tim Johns on 10/14/99 from wes22.bham.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Poetry by Arthur Ransome posted by Charles Sullivan on October 06, 1999 at 22:32:12:
How about AR's sub-Masefield 'The Ballad of Nancy Blackett' (see p.13 of
Nancy Blackett by Roger Wardale)? I'd probably get into trouble
with the Literary Executors for quoting all four verses, but may be able
to get away with the first, which goes (from memory):
My name is Nancy Blackett,
I'm the the terror of the seas.
When traders see my topsail
They go trembly at the knees.
For the rest, see Wardale!