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Title: Ballads of Lost Haven
A Book of the Sea

Author: Bliss Carman

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Language: English

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Ballads of Lost Haven

_A Book of the Sea_

By BLISS CARMAN

_Author of_ Low Tide on Grand Pre, Behind the Arras, Songs from
Vagabondia, &c.

[Illustration: Logo]

Lamson, Wolffe and Company Boston, New York and London

MDCCCXCVII

Copyright, 1897

by Lamson, Wolffe and Company

_All rights reserved_

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith

Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

Contents

PAGE
A SON OF THE SEA 7
THE GRAVEDIGGER 8
THE YULE GUEST 12
THE MARRING OF MALYN 26
THE NANCY'S PRIDE 43
ARNOLD, MASTER OF THE SCUD 48
THE SHIPS OF ST. JOHN 55
THE KING OF YS 59
THE KELPIE RIDERS 68
NOONS OF POPPY 93
LEGENDS OF LOST HAVEN 95
THE SHADOW BOATSWAIN 98
THE MASTER OF THE ISLES 104
THE LAST WATCH 110
OUTBOUND 116

A SON OF THE SEA

I was born for deep-sea faring;
I was bred to put to sea;
Stories of my father's daring
Filled me at my mother's knee.

I was sired among the surges;
I was cubbed beside the foam;
All my heart is in its verges,
And the sea wind is my home.

All my boyhood, from far vernal
Bourns of being, came to me
Dream-like, p