The buccaneer book: Songs of the black flag
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The Buccaneer Book
Songs of the Black Flag
By Alden Noble
Green Mountain Press
1908
Acknowledgement is hereby made to The Blue Sky Press, Lippincott’s, Clayton F. Summy, and the Cosmopolitan, for their permitting the reprint of some of the matter contained in this book.
Copyright, 1908 , by A. C. Noble.
To T. W. S.
Ten years ago you found an idle prow
Alden Charles Noble
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THE BUCCANEER BOOK
Contents
Dedication
Proem
The Wastrel
Drinking Song
“Sigh No More, Ladies”
The End of the Fight
To a Merchant Sailor
The Love o’ Ships
Execution Dock
The Plank
The Buccaneer
1. The Sailing
2. The Meeting
3. The Wooing
4. The Marriage
5. In the Sunrise
6. The Parting
Dig Deep
Long Live the King
The Exiles
Miserere
Revenge
The Stern Chase
The Minstrel of the Fleet
The Ballad of the Forty-Year
Marooned
Explicet