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Thread #63286   Message #1030624
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Oct-03 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: Maritime term 'Mother Carey'
Subject: RE: Maritime term 'Mother Carey'
Unlike Masefield's "Mother Carey," which could make a nice song-recitation, a 19th century poem by Theodore Watts-Dunton doesn't look usable at first glance. Also long, but worth reading. Subtitled "On seeing a storm-petrel in a cage on a cottage wall and releasing it."
See "Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken" at Chicken