Whaddaya Say?

Dollars to donuts, this is one of the verses that Jack's dad had him learn:

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

And a gray mist on the sea’s face, and a gray dawn breaking.

-- From "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield (1878-1967)