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“My Ship and I”
Robert Louis Stevenson
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
      Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond;
 And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;
 But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
      How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
 
 For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
      And the dolly I intend to come alive;
 And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
 It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
      And the vessel goes a divie-divie-dive.
 
 O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,
      And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow;
 For beside the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore,
 To land upon the island where no dolly was before,
      And to fire the penny cannon in the bow. 
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