Must down: On non-occurring verbs of motion in modern English
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https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.121Abstract
The first line of what is perhaps the poet laureate John Masefield's best-known poem, "Sea fever", runs
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
It is a memorable line in a fine poem. One of the things that make it memorable is the use of must down, a phrase with a somewhat quaint ring to it in modern ears.
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