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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

By Ethel Turner

146 . A Boat on the Sea

A BOAT on the sea, my boat,

Eager and frail!

Sweet skies, smile as you look

On that fairy sail.

Waves, great waves, many years

You have worked your will.

Just while she passes through,

Kind waves, be still.

Winds—and I may not ask

That you never blow,

But spare her the moaning note

That the old boats know.