MN Monument is pristine again

[Administrator]

The Gem: Barry Today.

Monument is pristine again

THE committee and all members of
the Barry Merchant Navy
Association would like to give a big
thank you to the Vale Council for giving
the Merchant Navy monument a
thorough good (dry docking) cleaningup,
after the weatherbeaten state it had
got in to.

Thank you.

Barry Merchant Navy Association
committee and all members.

[Administrator]

“In Ocean waves no poppies blow
No crosses stand in ordered in row,
Their young hearts sleep beneath the wave
The spirited, the good, and the brave

But stars a constant vigil keep,
For them who lie beneath the deep,
‘Tis true you cannot kneel in prayer
On a certain spot and think he’s there

But you can to the ocean go
See whitecaps marching row on row;
Know one for him will always ride,
In and out with every tide

And when your span of life is passed
He’ll meet you at the ‘Captain’s Mast’
And they who mourn on distant shore,
For sailors who will come home no more

Can dry their tears and pray for these
Who rest beneath the heaving seas,
For stars that shine and winds that blow
And whitecaps marching row on row
And they can never lonely be,

For when they lived They choose the sea.”

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