'I've sailed onst with an Orkney man, <br />A deal o' years ago,' said Dan, <br />'In Clay's old packet <br />Kubla Khan <br />.' <br /> <br />'A feller full o' quare old tales <br />O' singin' seals, an' stranded whales <br />As comes ashore in the winter gales.' <br />'A decent shipmate, too . . . he's dead, <br />Lost overboard off Java Head <br />A deal o' years ago,' Dan said.<br /><br />Cicely Fox Smith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-orkney-man/
