História trágico-marítima

'A woman has ten claws,'
Sang the drunken boatswain;
Farther than Betelgeuse
More brilliant than Orion
Or the planets Venus and Mars,
The star flames on the ocean;
'A woman has ten claws,'
Sang the drunken boatswain.

(Above 80º N.
)Philip Larkin, 1944