I must go down to the Sea Again John Masefield

I Must Go Down to the Sea

 

I must go down to the seaS again,

to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star

to steer her by,

And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seaS again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

 

- John Masefield

WHEN i WAS A SMALL BOY MY PARENTS SAILED FROM SYDNEY TO AUCKLAND WITH THEIR THREE CHILDREN.

A foreign submarine was sighted and as the World war 2 was raging. Everyone was very concerned. I was not because I was too sea sick.

Many years later Val and I and five children sailed from Sydney to Newcastle.

Well that was the intention, in a yacht carrying 8 people altogether. An hour outside the heads we pursuaded the owner skipper and an employee of mine, that we wished to go back to Sydney.

He tried to convince us, that yachts can not roll over. We did not buy that story. We returned to Sydney Thank goodness. Then Val and I went to Hawaii for a conference. I was talked into going out in another yacht. I fell off one side and was pulled back and fell off the other side. I love the water in big boats but not yachts.

There was a Hub this morning, appearing tio indicate the life was unfair. my mind went to the Syndey Hobart race 1998 where 6 people lost their lives because of the freak weather.

 

5 dead, 1 presumed drowned after yacht race

In this story:

December 29, 1998

Web posted at: 12:51 a.m. EDT (0451 GMT)

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Five sailors are dead and one other presumed drowned Tuesday in the storm-decimated Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race, an experience U.S. billionaire Larry Ellison, the winner of the event, called "just awful."

"I've never experienced anything remotely like this. It's been a very emotional experience to get here. This is not what this is supposed to be about. A lot of us are upset," Ellison said.

British sailor Glyn Charles, 33, was washed off the Sword of Orion yacht Sunday night and declared drowned on Tuesday, said Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokesman Brian Hill. Charles had represented Britain in the Star Class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he finished 11th, race officials said.

Two of the dead, believed to be from the veteran cutter Winston Churchill, were pulled from a swell of about 3-meters (9-feet). A third man from the cutter was missing.

Two Australian sailors died off of New South Wales when their boat capsized.

Navy helicopter pilot Tanzi Lea, who found the two bodies from the Winston Churchill two miles (1.2 kilometers) apart and 50 miles (31 kilometers) offshore early Tuesday, said they were both found face down and were picked out by nets.

"It wasn't so difficult because the seas had abated a bit but we were just lucky to find the second body," Lea told The Associated Press in Eden. "The chances of the third man being found alive are slim, but I'd never give up hope."

Some 35 military and civilian aircraft and 27 navy ships were involved in the search for stranded sailors.

A 'frightening' experience

 

AGAIN WE HAVE THE STORY OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

 

Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit ? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera ? Quid agunt ? quae loca habitant ? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari : ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. - T. Burnet, Archaeol. Phil., p. 68 (slightly edited by Coleridge).

Translation

ARGUMENT

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole ; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean ; and of the strange things that befell ; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.

i AM FASCINATED BY THE SEA AND THE AWSOME POWER THAT IT HAS OVER ALL OF US, EVEN WHEN WE LIVE ON THELAND. i BELIEVE ONE SHOULD TREAT IT WIH ALL RESPECT. We all have to have A PMA.

We must not at any time feel sorry for ourselves.

There was a story once about a man who had one leg shorter than the other. He complained about this tradegy in his life. Then one day he met a man who had no legs.

 

 

There is certainly room in our minds that some people have a very hard life. Specially children. Nethertheless, I do belive that we must be positive in all things that we do in life and not feel that we did not get what we wanted , so life is unfair. We must all have A PMA and thank god that he blesses us.