“The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,
There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,
Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,
Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues”

— John Masefield

Ballads and Poems (1910), "Spanish Waters"

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English poet and writer 1878–1967

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