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‘Who's Mike?’ my brother growled
A little roughly. Quoth the fisherman—
‘Mike, Sir? he's just a fisher lad, no more;
But he can sing, when he takes on to sing,
So loud there's not a sparrow in the spire
But needs must hear. Sir, if I might make bold,
I'd ask what song that was you sung. My mate,
As we were shoving off the mackerel boats,
Said he, “I'll wager that's the sort o' song
They kept their hearts up with in the Crimea.”’
A little roughly. Quoth the fisherman—
‘Mike, Sir? he's just a fisher lad, no more;
But he can sing, when he takes on to sing,
So loud there's not a sparrow in the spire
But needs must hear. Sir, if I might make bold,
I'd ask what song that was you sung. My mate,
As we were shoving off the mackerel boats,
Said he, “I'll wager that's the sort o' song
They kept their hearts up with in the Crimea.”’
| Poems by Jean Ingelow | |