The Channel Swimmer
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea,
A super-man swimming the ocean,
Then hark to the tale of Joe Lee
Our Channel, our own Straits of
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Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea,
A super-man swimming the ocean,
Then hark to the tale of Joe Lee
Our Channel, our own Straits of
The damned ship lurched and slithered
Quiet and quick My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled;
I knewI must think hard of something, or be sick;
And could think hard of only one thing —
Setting a trotline after sundown if we went far enough away in the night sometimes up out of deep water would come a secret-headed channel cat,
Eyes that were still eyes in the rush of darkness, flowing feelers noncommittal and black, and hid...