Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 06, 2005 at 14:40:33 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Complete the ditty posted by Bill Payne on November 06, 2005 at 11:28:17:
As pretty as you could wish,
An' then we shovelled him up in a sack an dumped him to the fish,
That was jest arter we'd got sail on her.
John Masefield (Poet Laureate and AR's friend).
Salt Water Ballads - 'Cape Horn Gospel II'
(Can be found in the Collected Poems of John Masefield - which AR fans ought to own as the Swallows (particularly Titty) quote repeatedly from it. They are good poems anyway, although this one is not one of his most Politically Correct efforts!