Masefeld saw the beauty which the "ship's painter could see, but could not transfer to canvas."
Uke the "Dauber," he was able to put it down in a form which veyed to the human mind the q {les of the sea in almost as forceful and expressive a manner as the best sea painter could have done.
Contrasting with his masterful picture of a clipper ship lurching tunsteadily through mountainous seas, Masefield describes the scene when the clipper finally reaches port after along and stormy voyage around Cape Horn, so dreaded by the crews of sailing ships, who had to brave all its dangers' clutching perilously. onto the yard-arm, and obeying the order to put on more sail, or to reef the canvas to prevent the ship being dismasted by the fury of the gale:—Then In the sunsets Mush they went aloft, And unbent sails {n that most lovely hour, When the light gentles and the wind is. soft, And beouliy In the heart breaks ike flower, Working aloft they saw the moun-
Taunehmen shout: And bright along the bay the slits
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