Alexander Kent
Relentless Pursuit
(Bolitho – 27)

For you, Kim,

With all my love, and a yellow rose…

The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;

The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand…

But all I could think of in the darkness and the cold

Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.

Robert Louis Stevenson

from Christmas at Sea


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