Thu 18 Jun 2020: Further adventures of Captain Goffey RN. (16 min read; 3222 words)
The nightingale and thrush
Blackbird and wren
Are all praised to death
And then praised again
I’ll hitch my flag
To a grey piece of rag
And salute the mighty heron
[‘The Heron’, from Captain Goffey’s Journal, published in the posthumous collection ‘A Fire-Eater at the North Pole’]
The Diary of Dr Thomas Watson, Surgeon of HMS Jupiter
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