THE LIFE-CREW MAN by Ernest McGaffey

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 2, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 22.

THE LIFE-CREW MAN.

By Ernest McGaffey

Tho salt as the sea beneath him, And gray as a foam-tipped swell, With skin like a wrinkled parchment, And rough as an ocean swell, There was something of Christ about him— Just what, I could not tell.

But the curlew’s cry above him Of a sudden fired my blood, And I saw in a chilling vision The sea in a raging flood, And a boat on the hungry billows All dashed with the flying scud.

And there, with his comrades by him, The bravest of the brave, The life-crew man flashed by me On the crest of a giant wave, And that was the Christ within him— To succor and to save.

—Ernest McGaffey.