Edward Anderson goes to sea

In the poem by Edward Anderson, entitled, "The Sailor," he states that he commenced his career at Scarborough, and thus describes his journey to that port:

On Wandle hill I viewed the distant deep,
Look'd back and wept, and stopp'd again to weep,
The port of Scarborough is well known to me,
That was the place where I first went to sea;
Jacket and trousers there I first put on,
And all that saw me laughed at country John;Then to a friend I gave my country coat,
Took up my bed, and went into the boat,
Oh! how I trembled when I left the shore,
I never had been in a boat before!
The boat was small, they bid me lay down,
I heard them say that we should all be drown'd;
I thought my troubles soon would all be done,
But since, I found that they were just begun,
I could not swim, so I had little hope;
At length we reach'd the ship, they threw a rope,
Sick and half drown'd they haul'd me up the side,
The ship she had beat out to sea that tide

Note: Wandle hill is about two miles from Bridlington to Kilham, and the view from thence is slendid

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