Outward, with men upon them, stretched in line, Handling the halliards to the ocean’s gates, Where flicking windflaws fill the air with brine, And all the ocean opens. Then the mates Cry, and the sunburnt crew no longer waits, But sing triumphant and the topsail fills To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Printed In the United States of America. The following pages contain advertisements of Macmillan poems by the same author. JOHN MASEFIELD’S The Everlasting Mercy, and The Widow in Bye Street _Decorated boards, $1.25. Postpaid, $1.38_ "The Everlasting Mercy" was awarded the Edward de Polignac prize of $500 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best imaginative work of the year. "John Masefield is the man of the hour, and the man of to-morrow too, in poetry and in the playwriting craft."--JOHN GALSWORTHY. "--recreates a wholly new drama of existence."--WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE, _N. Y. Times_. "Mr. Masefield comes like a flash of light across contemporary English poetry, and he trails glory where his imagination reveals the substances of life. The improbable has been accomplished by Mr. Masefield; he has made poetry out of the very material that has refused to yield it for almost a score of years. It has only yielded it with a passion of Keats, and shaped it with the imagination of Coleridge."--_Boston Evening Transcript_. "Originality, force, distinction, and deep knowledge of the human heart."--_Chicago Record-Herald_. "They are truly great pieces."--Kentucky Post. "A vigor and sincerity rare in modern English literature."--_The Independent_. "If Mr. Masefield has occasionally appeared to touch a reminiscent chord with George Meredith, it is merely an example of his good taste and the sameness of big themes."--GEORGE MIDDLETON in _La Foliette’s Magazine_. JOHN MASEFIELD’S The Story of a Round-House, and other Poems "John Masefield has produced the finest literature of the year."--J. W. BARRIE. "John Masefield is the most interesting poetic personality of the day."--_The Continent_. "Ah! the story of that rounding the Horn! Never in prose has the sea been so tremendously described."--_Chicago Evening Post_. "Masefield’s new book attracts the widest attention from those who in any degree are interested in the quality of present-day literature."--_Boston Transcript_. "A remarkable poem of the sea."--_San Francisco Chronicle_. "Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--_Current Literature_. "A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield’s position in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--_Everybody’s Magazine_. "Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--_N. Y. Sun_.