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.

Contents

[Proem]7
[The Wastrel]9
[Drinking Song]10
[Sigh No More, Ladies]11
[The End of the Fight]12
[To a Merchant Sailor]13
[The Love o’ Ships]14
[Execution Dock]15
[The Plank]16
[The Buccaneer]17
[1. The Sailing]17
[2. The Meeting]18
[3. The Wooing]19
[4. The Marriage]20
[5. In the Sunrise]21
[6. The Parting]22
[Dig Deep]23
[Long Live the King]24
[The Exiles]25
[Miserere]26
[Revenge]27
[The Stern Chase]28
[The Minstrel of the Fleet]29
[The Ballad of the Forty-Year]31
[Marooned]35
[Explicet]39

Dedication

To T. W. S.

Ten years ago you found an idle prow

And sent her forth to seek enchanted seas;

Under your wharf she comes to anchor now,

Bearing to you, old friend, her argosies.