"FULTAH FISHER'S BOARDING HOUSE" "That night, when through the mooring chains" "The wide eyed corpse rolled free." "To blunder down by Garden Reach" "And not at Kedgaree." "The tale the Huglali told the shoal" "The lean shoal told to me." "It was Faltah Fisher's boarding house" "Where sailor-men reside," "And there were men of all the ports" "From Mississip to Clyde," "And regally they spat and smoked," "And fearsomely they lied..." "And there was Hans the blue-eyed Dane," "Bull-throated, bare of arm," "Tho carried on his hairy chest" "The maid Ultruda's charm..." "The little silver crucifix" "That keeps a man from harm." "And there was Jake Without-the-Ears" "And Pamba the Malay," "And Carboy Gin the Guinea cook," "And Luz from Vigo Bay." "And Honest Jack who sold them slops And harvested their pay." "And there was Salem Hardieker A lean Bostonian he..." "Swiss, German, English, Halfbreed, Finn," "Yank, Dane and Portuges," "At Fultah Fisher's boarding-house" "They rested from the sea." "They told their tales of wreck and wrong." "Of shame and lust and fraud." "They backed their toughest statements with" "The Brimstone of the Lord." "And crackling oaths went to and fro" "Across the fist-banged board." "How Anne of Austria shared their drinks" "Collinga knew her fame," "From Tarnau in Galicia" "To Jaun Bazar she came." "To eat the bread of infamy" "And take the wage of shame." "She held a dozen men to heel..." "Rich spoil of war was hers," "In hose and gown and ring and chain," "From twenty mariners," "And, by Port Law, that week, men called" "Her Salem Hardieker's." "But seaman learnt-what landsmen know..." "That neither gifts nor gain" "Can hold a winking Light O'Love." "Or Fancy's flight restrain," "When Anne of Austria rolled her eyes On Hans the blue-eyed Dane." "But cold was Hans the blue-eyed Dane." "Bull-throated bare of arm." "And laughter shook the chest beneath" "The maid Ultruda's charm..." "The little silver crucifix" "That keeps a man from harm." ""You speak to Salem Hardieker," "You was his girl, I know" "I ship mineselfs to-morrow, see," "Und round the Skaw we go," "South down the Cattegat, by Hjelm," "To Besser in Saro."" "When love rejected turns to hate," "All ill betide the man." ""You speak to Salem Hardieker..."" "She spoke as woman can." "A screa-a sob- "He sailed me-names!"" "and then the fray began." "An oath from Salem Hardieker." "A shriek upon the stairs," "Across the broken chairs." "A dance of shadows on the wall" "A knife-thrust unawares..." "And Hans came down, as cattle drop," "When Anne of Austria's trembling hands" "The weary head fell low:..." "I ship mineselfs to-morrow, straight" "For Besser in Saro:" "Und there Ultruda comes to me" "At Faster, und I go." ""South down the Cattegat - What's here?" "There-are-no-lights-to-guide!"" "The mutter ceased, the spirit passed," "And Anne of Austria cried" "In Gultah Fisher's boarding-house" "When Hans the mighty died." "Thus slew they Hans the blue-eyed Dane," "Bull-throated, bare of arm." "But Anne of Austria looted first" "The maid Ultruda's charm..." "The little silver crucifix" "That keeps a man from harm."