Explore "The Merchantmen" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes, and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre: / With cedars out of Lebanon / Which Hiram rafted down, / But we be only sailormen / That use in London Town.
_Coastwise -- cross-seas -- round the world and back again -- / Where the flaw shall head us or the full Trade suits -- / Plain-sail -- storm-sail -- lay your board and tack again -- / And that's the way we'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots! _