fishermen's memorial and record book. 



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YACHTING. 



BY HENRT A. KEKDALL. 



FUl, snowy sails, until onr rails 



Careening kiss the sea ; 

 White crests of foam abandon home 



To bear us company I 



And, brave topmast, defy the blaet, 



Clear whistle in the wind; 

 These bright green waves were never graves, 



Till hope was left behind. 



Nor hopeful decks can turn to wrecks 



While water washes keel — 

 " 80 bind the sheets to weather-cleats," 



Loud sings the pilot at the wheel. 



These clouds, storm-gray, will bum away, 

 The wind go down with the sun ; 



And Dian bright, with her silver light, 

 Will gild our sails as we onward run. 



Already in lulls we hear the gulls, 



And see the petrels flitting by ; 

 And He whose might notes swallows' flight, 



Will give us at length a tranquil sky, 



And wind as fair as stirred the air, 

 With waves that dance, as when 



Columbus left the Indian isles. 

 And steered bia shallop back to Spain 1 



