Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/253

 THE BALLAD OF THE "BOLIVAR"

put out from Sunderland loaded down with rails;

We put back to Sunderland 'cause our cargo shifted;

We put out from Sunderland—met the winter gales—

Seven days and seven nights to the Start we drifted.

Racketing her rivets loose, smoke-stack white as snow,

All the coals adrift a deck, half the rails below 69