When the long trick’s over...

 

This road will take you down to the seas, via Chapel Strand on Arranmore Island, County Donegal.

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 (1878–1967)

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