And caught her wing and wing.

·  ·  ·  ·  ·

She lifted her hull like a breasting gull

Where the rolling valleys be,

And dipped where the shining porpoises

Put ploughshares through the sea.

·  ·  ·  ·  ·

They all may home on a sleepy tide

To the sag of an idle sheet;

But it’s never again the Nancy’s Pride