Friday, August 19

I see it in my head....

A Wanderer's Song

A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;
I hunger for the sea's edge, the limit of the land,
Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.

Oh I'll be going, leaving the noises of the street,
To where a lifting foresail-foot is yanking at the sheet;
To a windy, tossing anchorage where yawls and ketches ride,
Oh I'll be going, going, until meet the tide.

And first I'll heat the sea-wind, the mewing of the gulls,
The clucking, sucking of the sea about the rusty hulls,
The songs and the capstan at the hooker warping out,
And then the heart of me'll know I'm there or thereabout.

Oh I am sick of brick and stone, the heart of me is sick,
For windy green, unquiet sea, the realm of Moby Dick;
And I'll be going,going, from the roaring wheels,
For a wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels.

John Masefield

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