Gridley (CG 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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A SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS TODAYA RUDE BRIEF RECITA TIVE, OF SHIPS SAILING THE SEAS, EACH WITH ITS SPECIAL FLAG OR SHIP-SIGNAL, OF UNNAMED HEROES IN THE SHIPS-OF WAVES SPREADING AS' FAR AS THE EYE CAN REACH, OF DASHING SPRAY, AND THE WINDS PIPING AND BLOWING, AND OUT OF THESE A CHANT FOR THE SAILORS OF ALL NATIONS, FITFUL LIKE A SURGE. OF SEA-CAPTAINS- YOUNG OR OLD, AND THE MA TES, AND OF ALL INTREPID SAILORS, OF THE FEW, VERY CHOICE, TACITURN, WHOM FATE CAN NEVER SUPRISE NOR DEA TH DISMA Y, PICKED SPARINGLY, WITHOUT NOISE BY THEE, OLD OCEAN, CHOSEN BY THEE, ' THOU SEA THAT PICKEST AND CULLEST THE RACE IN TIME, AND UNITEST THE NATIONS, SUCKLED BY THEE, OLD HUSKY NURSE, EMBODYING THEE, INDOMITABLE UNTAMED AS THEE, FLAUNT OUT O SEA, YOUR SEPARATE FLAGS OF NATIONS! FLAUNT OUT VISIBLE AS EVER THE VARIOUS FLAGS AND SHIP- SIGNALS! BUT DO YOU RESERVE ESPECIALLY FOR YOURSELF AND FOR THE SOUL OF MAN ONE FLAG ABOVE ALL THE REST, A SPIRITUAL WOVEN SIGNAL FOR ALL NATIONS, EMBLEM OF MAN ELA TE ABOVE DEATH, TOKEN OF ALL BRA VE CAPTAINS, AND OF ALL INTREPID SAILORS AND MATES, AND ALL THAT WENT DOWN DOING THEIR DUTY, REMINISCENT OF THEM, TWINED FROM ALL INTREPID CAPTAINS YOUNG OR OLD, A PENNANT UNIVERSAL, SUBTLELY WA VING ALL TIME O'ER ALL BRA VE SAILORS, ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS. WALT WHITMAN

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