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Rudyard Kipling - Frankie`s Trade
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Old Horn to All Atlantic said:
      A-hay O! To me O!
  "Now where did Frankie learn his trade?
  For he ran me down with a three-reef mains`I."
      All round the Horn!

  Atlantic answered:—"Not from me!
  You`d better ask the cold North Sea,
  For he ran me down under all plain canvas."
      All round the Horn!

  The North Sea answered: — "He`s my man,
  For he came to me when he began—
  Frankie Drake in an open coaster.
      All round the Sands!

  "I caught him young and I used him sore,
  So you never shall startle Frankie more,
  Without capsizing Earth and her waters.
     All round the Sands!
            
  "I did not favour him at all.
  I made him pull and I made him haul—
  And stand his trick with the common sailors.
     All round the Sands!

  "I froze him stiff and I fogged him blind,
  And kicked him home with his road to find
  By what he could see in a three-day snowy-storm.
      All round the Sands!

  "I learned him his trade o` winter nights,
  `Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights,
  On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing.
     All round the Sands!

  "Before his beard began to shoot,
  I showed him the length of the Spaniard`s foot—
  And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later.
      All round the Sands!

  "If there`s a risk which you can make,
  That`s worse than he was used to take
  Nigh every week in the way of his business;
      All round the Sands!

  "If there`s a trick that you can try,
  Which he hasn`t met in time gone by,
  Not once or twice, but ten times over;
      All round the Sands!

  "If you can teach him aught that`s new,
      A-hay O! To me O!
  I`ll give you Bruges and Niewport too,
  And the ten tall churches that stand between
      Storm along, my gallant Captains!
    All round the Horn!
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