title: Sea, Ships and Sailors, Poems, Songs and Shanties
author: William Cole
description: A collection of eighty-five poems, songs, and shanties of varying tenors and tones from such  diverse sources as William Shakespeare, Wallace Irwin, Rudyard Kipling, and Walter de la Mare. They are divided into eight different sections and include authentic English and American sea shanties. Robin Jacques has brilliantly captured the spirit of the sea in his line drawings.
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The songs quoted in the text from the New Hebrides Commune
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  all from the Songs of the Hebrides, collected by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser and
  published 1909,
  
  
  1922, by Boosey and Hawker. The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves, English words
  by Mrs.
  
  
  Kennedy-Fraser, from the Gaelic of Kenneth Mac-Leod. Caristlona, words
  traditional, English
  
  
  by Kenneth MacLeod. The Fairy's Love Song, English words by James Hogg
  (adapted). The
  
  
  Mull-Fisher's Song, English words by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser. The Coolies of
  Rum, English
  
  
  words by Elfrida Rivers, by special permission.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First Printing, December, 1972
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Chapter ONE
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
    
  The landing gear was almost the least of their worries; but it made a serious
  problem in getting  
  in and out. The great starship lay