Captain Brown
Bluff Captain Brown is somewhat queer,
But of the sea he's very knowing.
I scarcely meet him once a year—
He's off in search of whales a-blowing.
For fifty years—perhaps for more—
He's sailed about upon the ocean.
He thinks that if he lived ashore
He'd die. But this is just a notion.
Still when the Captain comes to port
With barrels of oil from whales caught napping,
He'll pace the deck, and loudly snort,
"This land air is my strength a-sapping.
"I call this living on hard terms;
I wish that I had never seen land;
I wish I were a-chasing sperms
Abaft the nor'east coast of Greenland."
Yet on his latest cruise, 'tween whales
The Captain wrote a book most charming.
It's called—and it is having sales—
"Some Practical Advice on Farming."