Pipe, bird, in the tamarind tree. Pipe, wind, on the azure sea. Here is the Season of Peace on E… Pipe merrily. Roar, surf, on the outer reef.

When the drift spins white, and th… And the black clouds race in the s… The Mother Carey, down in the sea… Startles her chickens up from her… With shout and laughter she bids t…

Never again shall we beat out to s… In rain and mist and sleet like bi… And watch the harbour beacons fade… And people all the sea-room with o… Our toil is done. No more, no mo…

THUMPS the big drum, “Come!” And thin and bitter-sweet the fife… “Come up and serve your country in… ”Come up and serve your King, in…

Not a leaf stirs in the rubbery lo… The Skipper’s shirt is wilted and… Whistle a breeze! Brown girls move along on slithery… Selling sticky sweets;

YE who reckon with England– Ye who sweep the seas Of the flag that Rodney nailed al… And Nelson flung to the breeze– Count well your ships and your men…

North! We are sailing North, The song at the windlass is done. The slim, still palms, astern, Are black ‘gainst the orange sun. North! She is heading North,

Fades the sodden wharf, and fades… The anchored ships are lost. The… Fades out. The narrows close. T… The green hill-pastures blur again… The free wind strains our pinions…

‘STRIKE me blind!’ we swore. God, and I was stricken! I have seen the morning fade And noonday thicken. Be merciful, O God, that I have…

THUNDER of riotous hoofs over t… Clash of reeking squadrons, steel-… The White Maid, and the white hor… Black hearts riding for money; red… The maid who rides for France and…

HUNCHED in his greatcoat, there… Sullen of face and rough of hands, Ready to fight, unready to drill, Willing to suffer and ready to kil… He isn’t our best; he isn’t our wo…

Now let him rest, Toil-worn hands on nerveless breas… Fish come into the silver bays, And red suns go to the west. But never again with wind and tide

Beyond the surf and the reef, Beyond the gloom and the gleam, Beyond the purple veils Where lost sailors dream, The Wind of the Night awakes

The noddy lay sick-a-bed; The bread was low in the bin; The dogs howled all night long And the ice-pans drifted in. The white fog heaved with the soun…

Pipe, bird, in the tamarind tree. Pipe, wind, on the azure sea. Here is the season of Peace on Ea… Pipe merrily. Roar, surf, on the outer reef.