God Help Our Men at Sea

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Meant for the workers at sea, that God may guide them in all their undertakings in whatever job they have in the waters. It is as if a close relative is praying and wishing to God that their family members are safe and secure while doing their jobs at the sea, although there might be huge thunderstorms and a lot of catastrophes along the way.

Henry Kendall was an Australian poet whose rhyme was a success from a life of tough times. His father was a missionary and polyglot. He died when Henry and his twin brother, Basil Edward, were at the age of 2. Their mother lived with her sons to a grange, when he was older, he went to shore with his uncle for two years. He later went back to Sydney to work as a store clerk, started to compose poems, and enticed the attentiveness of a barrister who offered him a job in his office and in his library, the seventeen-year-old poet read his verses. His first poem was seen in town publications, compiled in Poems and Songs. Colleagues gave him a government position that made him to fend for his mother and sisters, then he got married. But he quitted his job and lived in Melbourne with his wife. Outwardly, his wife and mother argued incessantly because the mother was alcoholic.

From there he wrote journals but failed in doing so and issued Leaves from Australian Forests, which was well praised but sold unsuccessfully. He worked in another government job but left because he was not able to do the statistical work required of him. Two years of immense privation and alcoholism ensued before colleagues again saved him with a job as a store clerk at Camden Haven, N.S.W. He later wrote his final collection of poetry, Songs from the Mountains.
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