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Sea Fever From: Written by John Masefield Poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist, John Masefield’s literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation wa…

The most impressive poems John Masefield wrote, Salt-Water Ballads, are devoted to the sea. This is hardly a surprise, as Masefield spent several years of his life aboard ship. In his long narrative poems (The Everlasting Mercy, for instance) he dared to use colloquial expressions, which could hardly be found in English poetry before. Also,

Let no religious rite be done or read / In any place for when I am dead, /But burn my body into ash, and scatter /The ash in secret into running water, /Or on the windy down, and let none see; /And then thank God that there's an end of me. (John Masefield, English writer and poet, died 12 May 1967)

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