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The Dream Ship

I want to go aboard my ship, and sail and sail away
To see the whales a-spouting and the porpoises at play
To meet Atlantic rollers with their wild and mighty sweep
I want to know the dangers and the wonders of the deep

I want to see tall ice-bergs, all a-sparkle, drifting by
With surf about their buttresses, their spires against the sky
To make my voyage northwards till we're fast amid the flow
Where the white bear prowls around us, hunting seals across the snow

I want to land on coral isles, far in the ocean blue
To battle around the dreadful Horn as all stout seamen do
But since I'm not quite old enough I sometimes dream instead
And make myself adventures though they're only in my head

W.K Holmes