See the brown hands of each nautical dear;
Hear them discourse on a bobstay or binnacle,
Watch their delight when permitted to steer!
Dinners on deck are divinely delectable—
Under the awning, well screened from the sun—
Some folks would dine à la Russe and respectable;
Give us the laughing, the quaffing, and fun!
Dreaming when heats of the noontide so hazily
Shimmer around our becalmed little craft;
Smoking and mooning, so languidly lazily,