Three Fishers
Three fishers went sailing
Out into the west,
Out into the west
As the sun went down,
Each thought on the woman
That loves him the best,
And the children stood watching
Them out of the town.
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For men must work
And women must weep,
For there's little to earn
And many to keep,
And the harbor bar
Be moaning.
Three wives sat up
In the lighthouse tower,
They trimmed the lamps
As the sun went down,
And they looked at the squall
And they looked at the shower,
And the night-wrack came rolling in
Ragged and brown.
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Three corpses lay out
On the shining sand,
In the morning gleam
As the tide went down,
And the women were weeping
And wringing their hands,
For those who would never
Come back to the town.
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