Brave Adm’r’l, speak, what shall I say?”(4)

“Why, say,(5) ‘Sail on! Sail on and on!’”

They sailed and sailed(6) as winds might blow

Until at last the blanched mate(7) said:

“Why, now, not even God would know,

Should I and all my men fall dead.(8)

These very winds forget their way,

For God from these dread seas is gone,

Brave Adm’r’l, speak, what shall I say?”(9)

He said,(10) “Sail on! Sail on and on!”