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THE BUCCANEER BOOK
The Buccaneer Book
Songs of the Black Flag
By Alden Noble
Green Mountain Press
1908
Acknowledgement is hereby made to The Blue Sky Press, Lippincott’s, Clayton F. Summy, and the Cosmopolitan, for their permitting the reprint of some of the matter contained in this book.
Copyright, 1908, by A. C. Noble.
Contents
Dedication
To T. W. S.
Proem
“Who hath not cried ‘Thalassa’ in his soul?”
The Wastrel
Drinking Song
“Sigh No More, Ladies”
The End of the Fight
To a Merchant Sailor
The Love o’ Ships
Execution Dock
The Plank
(A Double Rondeau)
The Buccaneer
(A Song Story)
“It is related of the notorious Pirate known as the Scourge of the Caribs, that he would never have to do with any woman, saving only one; and her he held only a single hour in his arms, yet ever in his heart. And their meeting happed of an early morn, during his sacking of her native Town of Harnadino, in the Year of Our Lord, sixteen hundred and forty-two.”—Armilaud’s Chronicle.
1. The Sailing
2. The Meeting
3. The Wooing
4. The Marriage
5. In the Sunrise
6. The Parting
Dig Deep
Long Live the King
L’ENVOI
The Exiles
Miserere
Revenge
The Stern Chase
The Minstrel of the Fleet
The Ballad of the Forty-Year
Marooned
Explicet
Here ends the Buccaneer Book; written by Alden Noble, Press-mark designed by Harry Townsend, and the whole imprinted at the Green Mountain Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, in December, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, the Edition being limited to One Hundred and Fifty Copies