Sea Fever
"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking."
John Masefield (1878?1967), "Sea Fever".
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Diarist of the day: Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 15 September 1964[Dinner at the Royal Yacht Club] "Charles [Prince of Wales] came to ask me whether I knew Grace [Princess of Monaco] and, on hearing I did, said he particularly wanted to meet her and I promised to fix it. When Grace eventually did arrive, she sat between Gustaf [King of Sweden] and me and I never had a look in for the first twenty minutes, for they never drew breath talking to each other! Then I had a dance with Grace and finally brought Charles over to sit next to her. They got on like a house on fire, but every time I suggested, in a whisper, that he should ask her to dance he was too shy to do so, and he wouldn't let me help him either. So finally he went away without having asked her."
