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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Masefield poem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.195050.27364@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:50:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.191736.10998@vax.oxford.ac.uk> vollrath@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Alun ap Rhisiart) writes:
- >Hi again,
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- >(Hope this looks okay, this editor is going crazy)
- >About 15 years ago I read a sonnet by (I thought) John Maisfield (sp?).
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- Sorry, the only poem I know by him is the one following...which I
- love, so will repost anyway. And I think it's John Masefield.
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- *****
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- I must down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky.
- And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.
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- And the wheel's crack and the wind's song and a white sail's shaking,
- And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
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- *****
-
- (from memory, so punctuation and occasional words may be off)
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- - Mary Anne
- --
- i thank you God for most this amazing
- day: for the leaping greenly spirits of the trees
- and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
- which is natural which is infinite which is yes - e.e.cummings
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