Of relevance to people who care about lighthouses, their keepers, and workers not suddenly having their jobs and lives pulled out from underneath them: "Workers' union, former lightkeepers concerned with Coast Guard's decision to destaff B.C. lighthouses." Canadians, feel free to write your senators, MPs, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. Non-Canadians, please signal-boost if you can. It's a lost battle where I live: before I was ten, the last staffed lighthouse left in the U.S. was the Boston Light and its last keeper retired at the end of last year. Where it's living work, however, preserving it is not merely a matter of tradition.
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- 1: And the clock ticks faster every year
- 2: Put your boots on, do they fit you comfortably?
- 3: Left you breathless in the brine
- 4: God knows what indiscretions I committed
- 5: Are there some aces up your sleeve? Have you no idea that you're in deep?
- 6: One to sing and one to haul and one to heave me when I fall
- 7: This is what water, wind and time and toil reveal
- 8: We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again
- 9: And the shrouds hum full of the gale of the grave and the keel goes out to the sea
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