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Unread 10-24-2012, 04:58 PM
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Haha, you beat me to it, David!

Whenever I hear, or read, Sea Fever I automatically think of Spike Milligan's version.

That said, I'm very fond of Masefield's poem as I, too, learnt it at school. It was one of many that everyone my age (-ish) was exposed to, such as: 'The Daffodils', 'Silver', 'Cargoes', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'The Donkey', 'Leisure', 'The Tyger'... all of which I can still recite, in full or in part.

Happy school days! (At least when we did poetry.) Sea Fever is on the long list of memorable poems I've loved for most of my life.

"And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over" was on the front of the service sheet at my mother-in-law's funeral.

Thanks for submitting this one, whoever it was

Jayne
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