TO
THOSE WHO LOVE
THE SEA
AND ITS SHIPS.

CONTENTS.

  1. PAGE
  2. The Mermaid's Song [9]
  3. Trafalgar [13]
  4. When [18]
  5. The Forsaken Port [19]
  6. An Early Moonset [24]
  7. On the Bridge [25]
  8. Missing [30]
  9. Making Land [31]
  10. At Portsmouth [35]
  11. At Anchor [39]
  12. From the Cliff [40]
  13. Then and Now [42]
  14. The Ships [43]
  15. The Man-o'-War's Man's Yarn [49]
  16. A Foggy Morning [53]
  17. Unknown [55]
  18. The Coasters [57]
  19. To-Day [62]
  20. The Sailor of the Sail [63]
  21. The Yacht [68]
  22. The Trade Wind's Song [69]
  23. Execution Rock Light [71]
  24. The Cargo Boats [73]
  25. Noontide Calm [77]
  26. Old Buccaneer's Song [81]
  27. The Belfry of the Sea [85]
  28. Phantoms [95]
  29. Flotsam [98]
  30. The Lost Ship [99]
  31. The Main Sheet Song [101]
  32. The Landfall [103]
  33. The Clipper [104]
  34. The Constitution [105]
  35. The Tartar [107]
  36. Warning [110]
  37. In September [111]
  38. The Homeward Bounder's Song [113]
  39. The Spell of the Sea [115]
  40. Days of Oak [117]
  41. Long, Long Ago [119]
  42. Wind Happy Ships [122]
  43. The Quest [123]

THE MERMAID'S SONG.

Oh, what comes flowing over the sea
In the hush of the evening's cool?
It is a mermaid singing to me
As she sits in a silver pool.
As she sits in a silver pool and sings
Of the world I never shall see,
Where the dulse-weed clings,
And the star-fish rings
The red anemone;
The world which lies
Where human eyes
Are never allowed to see
The gold and gems
And fluted stems
Of the crimson coral tree—