Twenty men set off that day in the good ship Marie Louie
With a cargo of rum and a fine sail
And the devil for company
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Is Mariner's Rest a tavern or the graveyard of sailors under the sea? 4 stars. Meeting the Marie Lou makes me think of mythological 'sirens': 'humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives.'ie makes me think of s
oops (cont.) ...'blaspheme': blaspheme blăs-fēm′, blăs′fēm″ intransitive verb To speak of (God or a sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious manner. To revile; execrate. To speak blasphemy. Hmm?
stanza 3: I found 'blastheme' or a likeness of it in my online search, BUT I believe David meant 'blasphene
I give four stars. ;) bri