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THE OLD SHIPS.

Across the sen our fathers" came to lay, in blood and tail the foundations of Eng- Jand; and across the sea the English nation has moved to its Imperial destiny; We cannot point to any one element of our national character that has made us what we are, and given us what we bold; the Empire existed before we realised we had created it. It is the body in which the soul of Britain Laevitably, clothed itself, the outward and visible sign of stroog.

inarticulate, often unconscious, national spirit. But the urge to the ve the fascination of the wide spaces, the lure of the far horizon, all blindly grop ing impulses that at the beginning of. things sent our fathers toward the West, have never left us amid all the chances and changes of our chequered national history, and have played their part in making a home-loving conservative people the greatest imperial race since the world began.

Other elements in the national charao- ter were required to consolidate what this primal impulse had won and the fascination of the sea must play a steadi- y-decreasing part in the future of the British

Heoples. But the Viking inkri tance is

strong in the British blood, and it will be a bad day for us and for the world when it thins away to nothing- ness. A nation, for good or ill. cannot get away from its past. What we are depenils on what our fathers have been. You can't make 11: people overnight. Changed institutions, a changed environ- ment, will leave a nation in all that matters pretty well where they found it. There is nothing surer than that national character, the product of all the past, determines the national destiny.

Today there has come a surprising revival of interest in the old ships that 50 or 100 years ago threshed their way across the Seven Seas. Basil Lubbock and Miss Fox Sinith have tried to bring back to the hunting modern world something of the beauty and thrill and glamour of the days, of the clipper ships that brought across the world the tea crop of China or the Australian wool. And Miss Smith bas gone still further back to the days of the Indiamen ::

John Company's ships, they were steady

and "sloy,

Their tops'ls came in when it started to

blow:

For their halls were roomy, and round

and wide.

Bluff in the bows and big in the side. And they loaded them deep and they

crammed them fuli,

With the cargoes they brought from the

Great Mogul

And the winds they blow, and the tales

they fun.

The same today as they're always done, But they are gone like a tale that is told,

· John Company's ships of the days of old.

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had not dreamned." he says, "that work of man could be so beautiful" and perfect ship as one of the golden instants he later records that swift glimpse of a

of his life.

LOOKING BACK TO BUIL

In her Book of Famous Ships." Aliss Fox Smith has preserved the records of the fastest and finest ships that sailed the sens in the golden age of the sailing ship. Alas, their names stir no memories now. Who remembers to-day? There are still some of an older day that speak with bated breath of the Catty dark, almost the only one of the famous old ships that is still afloat. But what of the fun, the City of Agrol Where are the snows of yester-year On a run to Liverpool the Lightning is reported to have made a run of 436 miles in a single day. Running the easting down on a

Kipling would join issue with those that say the day of ruiance passed with the advent of steam. Machinery always fascinated him the co-ordinated energy of an engine room stirred him more than the widest spread of canvas to the tropic stars. But anything that revealed the relentless courage and power of the mind of man grappling with hostile Nature vang through him like a trumpet call. Man the conqueror is his theme: and the great steamer, forcing its path through storm and stress, halting not in its stride though all the storm fiends are marshall age to Melboume, she reeled off 430 ed against it, seems to him one of the sion she achieved 2158 miles'in six days. miles in the 22 hours. On another occa supreme achievements of the spirit of

Only the fastest steamers could beat that. MEA. Not that he despised the victories

But the clippers were built for speed, no less renowned of the days of sail:.

and the old skippers knew how to drive. Who hath desired the Seal-the sight of In the forehold of the Turrmopylae,

salt water unbounded-

standing some 15 ft. aft, one could easily touch both sides of the ship with extended hands, and the same held good of the stern. The saying was that if anyone passed a Malacca cane along her side at any point the cane would have to bend, ay there was not a straight line to her." fireat ships, and great men that sailed them. We may let Masefield have the last word:

The heave and the halt, and the hurl and the crash of the domber, wind bounded 1 The sleek-barrelled swell before stom, grey, foaming, enormous and grow ing The shudder, the stumble, the swerve, na

the star-stabbing bowsprit emerges. Masefield Ends the beauty and romance that once invested with glamour the quin- quereme of Nineveh or the stately galleon of Spain, in the dirty British coaster pounding its way through the March gales of the Channel, with its bumble cargo of simple, common things, for the daily necessities of men. That is as.

it should be. The true poct is be that D show us beauty in the ordinary things of life. It requires no poet's inspiration to see the beauty of the spring. It is easy enough to a beauties in

the brave days done; imagination trats-figures and glorifies what is seen dimly through the rose-tinted mists of the years. Each age. tends to find the true romance in the days that will not come again. Fifty years bence, our present age will shino with the light that never was on sea or land, and poets will sigh for the glories that have passed away, And we, in the midst of them. have our eyes holden that

we cannot see.

But, even so, there must have been a glory in the days of the clipper ships" that no possible development of steam or motor or electric power can ever bring ns again There is no more exquisite sight on land or sea than a great ship under full sail. And what we can see to-day is but poor,

faded remnant of pride of the seas when the slippers swept out of the Thames to try to fight their way to Melbourne in 60 days. Masefield pictures Dauber, the soul of the artist astir within him, weing for the first thoe clipper coming into the docks:

the

Raked to the nines she was, lofty and,

thin,

Her ensign ruffling red, her "bunts in

pile;

Beauty and strength together, wonder,

style. !

That vision sent him on his quest around the world. Here at last was the supreme beauty; those water trampling ships made him glow. he mys, and he followed the gleam, worshipping, adór ing, till the great ship, with a contemp tuous shrug, hurled him lifeless to the deck. Masefield tells us, too, how fint he saw the famous aiderer; how she gleamed like a spirit striding out of the might:

A full-rigged ship, unatterably fair, Her masts like trees in winter, frosty

bright.

(Dontinued on next column.)

Ther mark our passage as a race of men; Earth" will not see such ships as these,

again.

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