The first has sails as white as snow....


I wish I could find somewhere the old poem my mother had hanging behind our TV for years and years and years....or she could find where she put it when they moved upstairs.

It was a variation on "I saw three ships" - but there were quite a number of verses - the first ship had white sails and bore the virgin - the second ship has sails "as red as blood" and bore Christ - and the Third ship has sails "as black as death" and bore angels and martyrs.