The Story of the Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyison

[charles gunfury]

The Last of the Buccaneers

Here's to our one-eyed shantyman
and here's to the cross-eyed cook,
and we raise this grog
to that old seadog
the captain - patch 'n' hook.
And we drinks it too
to the rest of our crew
gone with 'im fathoms deep
with the skull-n-bones
down where Davy Jones'
as got 'em now for keeps.
But the last of this brewis for me 'n' you
to drink to the morrow morn
when we'll dance our jig
on the gallows rig
when they fetches us at dawn.

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