“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,” wrote John Masefield in his 1902 poem “Sea Fever.” The lure of the “lonely sea and the sky” is powerful: “the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking…the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.”
“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,” wrote John Masefield in his 1902 poem “Sea Fever.” The lure of the “lonely sea and the sky” is powerful: “the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking…the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.”
