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SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS by PAUL FORT

First Line: TO THE SEA THEIR HEARTS THEY VOW. THEY WILL NOT COME AGAIN. AND
Last Line: WOULD THEY HAVE REALLY COME?
Subject(s): SAILING & SAILORS; SEA; SINGING & SINGERS; SEAMEN; SAILS; OCEAN; SONGS;
To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And even if they
came would you recognise them now?

The ocean masks a man. If they return a while, we know not if they smile or weep
beneath their tan.

Do they bring back their souls? No. Still at sea they toil. How ardently it
rolls, greedy for precious spoil!

They will not come again. They choose waste seas to roam. And even if they came
would they have really come?



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