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Old Ships
By David Morton
1886-1957
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There is a memory stays upon old ships,
A weightless cargo in the musty hold, --
Of bright lagoons and prow-caressing lips,
Of stormy midnights, -- and a tale untold.
They have remembered islands in the dawn,
And windy capes that tried their slender spars,
And tortuous channels where their keels have gone,
And calm blue nights of stillness and the stars.

Ah, never think that ships forget a shore,
Or bitter seas, or winds that made them wise;
There is a dream upon them, evermore; --
And there be some who say that sunk ships rise
To seek familiar harbors in the night,
Blowing in mists, their spectral sails like light.

I worked on a tug called the Beaver out of staten island 1967 capt Connie V Esmark
anyone know anything my two old friends mabey the Beaver is there. Capt Esmark would be over a hundred an old German man old school.