Here we lie in a horizontal position
like a Ship laid up,
stripped of her sails and rigging.
St Andrews Cathedral Churchyard
On a Ship’s Captain and his Wife
Raymond Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Chambers, Edinburgh,1990
a captain’s sense of romance
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