Adamantine

The clipper penal to the kraken
A ship vaunting of defying many an unsettling wave
In a study of trade with the great east
Shipwrights proclaimed she would sink to no grave
The hull was built of wrought iron and wood oak
Of craftsmanship of nearly empyreal substance
The masts compeered to the yards and rigging
To hold many a sail upon the wind it had sustenance
There was not known a storm she never sailed through
Nor to the dry dock did she ever limp there
The unbreakable ship in the ironclad waters
Had never broken a sweat nor strain of despair
Her knots were legendary to enduring skippers
Unsurpassable was it by the clippers of extreme
Teas never perished nor did the cotton ever dampen
In her hull of sheathed copper and brass amongst the seas
Barnacles did not ever catch on and hold her back
Neither could any whale ever out-swim her
The grand ship to stir the seafaring heart
Would pride any fortunate lucrative skipper
Every sea was an open racecourse of trials
Every voyage was beset to demand more speed
For the highly tried and never fatigued clipper
Full sail there was not mentioned any such need
Sail-roads had not ever harmfully touched her
So that her trading would possibly ever despond
The treacherous rocks she bluntly seemed to shatter through
Also in the doldrums was her sailing quite fond
Pirates quivered when their glasses caught glimpses of her sails
Furling wildly the rogues knew they were being warned by her
They fled for their lives in their galleons far away
In hopes of escaping the indomitable piracy destroyer
Equivalent merchants of the ship sailing by extreme clippers
And the schooners, brigs, barques and brigantines
Were all puzzled till their scalps were exhausted by their notions
Wondering why adversity with the clipper never happened
Perhaps one could percept her unrivaled design
Surely it would make any sailor hold his breath
Most curiously of all was the unfathomable captain
Who never spoke in vain The Lord, Life or Death
The young man of the ship abided to all of the ways
Of the waters that would put an oar in one's plans to be faltered
Although he was conscious storms did not originate themselves
Adamantine was sailed under The Son, Holy Ghost and The Father

Mason Allen Buskirk
12/4/2012