Explore "The Ballad of the "Bolivar"" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, / Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: / Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away -- / We that took the _Bolivar_ out across the Bay!
We 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 adeck, half the rails below, / Leaking like a lobster-pot, steering like a dray -- / Out we took the _Bolivar_, out across the Bay!