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Do you know what I'd like to sing to-night?" rising to go indoors; "one of those rollicking, rioting old sailor-songs, with no tune, and not many more words, but with a catchiness in the two or three bars that gives you the sensation of a ship rolling and pitching under your feet but Sara won't let me, so" laughing mischievously "I suppose I'll have to come down to Bach and Wagner!"
And now I must be going; I will call in again to-night." Mr. Fraser accompanied him down to the gate, where he had left his trap. Before they got out of the front door, Angela had roused herself again, and they could hear her beginning to quote Homer, and then breaking out into snatches of her sailor-songs.
I remember that I sang one of Tommy's sailor-songs, "Sally," because its jolly doggerel was set to such a jaunty tune "Oh Sally's the gel for me, Our Sally's the gel for me, I'll marry the gel that I love best When I come back from sea." My pretence of happiness was shortlived, for at the next moment I made another mistake.
Feeling her desolation, wild, melancholy, forsaken songs rose thereon from that frightful aerie, weeping, wailing tunes, that sob among the people from age to age, and overflow with otherwise unexpressed sadness, all rude, mournful ballads, old tearful strains, that Shakspeare heard the vagrants sing, and that rise and fall like the wind and tide, sailor-songs, to be heard only in lone mid-watches beneath the moon and stars, ghastly rhyming romances, such as that famous one of the "Lady Margaret," when
It was the bird that had echoed mechanically the last despairing cry of the life that was given to save it. It was the bird, that ever after, amid outlandish oaths and wilder sailor-songs, that I fear often shocked the pure ears of its gentle mistress, and brought scandal into the Jerseys, still retained that one weird and mournful cry.
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