Margaret Atwood quote: Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr rolled ...

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr rolled in the arms of some nymph of the seaWhich is where we would all like to be, man!

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr...

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