"Tisn't. It's the part you like best,' Dan grunted. The music had turned soft-full of little sounds that chased each other on wings across the broad gentle flood of the main tune. But the voice was ten times lovelier than the music. 'Recordare Jesu pie, Quod sum causa Tuae viae, Ne me perdas illa die!' There was no more. They moved out into the centre aisle. "That you?' the Lady called as she shut the lid. 'I thought I heard you, and I played it on purpose.' "Thank you awfully,' said Dan. 'We hoped you would, so we waited. Come on, Una, it's pretty nearly dinner-time.' SONG OF THE RED WAR-BOAT Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! She'll stand on her head in the bay. For we hold that in all disaster When once he has pledged his word! Raging seas have we rowed in, But we seldom saw them thus; But never before such odds. The Gods know they are forsaken, Over the crest she flies from, Into its hollow she drops, Crouches and clears her eyes from The wind-torn breaker-tops, Ere out on the shrieking shoulder The thunders bellow and clamour Close! But the blow has missed her, Hearken, Thor of the Thunder! We would stay at home if we might- For we hold that in all disaster- That is our way of thinking, Now you can do as you will, While we try to save her from sinking, Bale her and keep her moving, Or she'll break her back in the trough Who said the weather's improving, Or the swells are taking off? Sodden, and chafed and aching, And there's far less weight to the seas! Up mast, and finish baling In oars, and out with the meadThe rest will be two-reef sailing That was a night indeed! But we hold that in all disaster |