Cicely Fox Smith Poems

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291.
The Rhyme Of The Inisfail

Limehouse way, the other day, as I did chance to be,
I met with a hairy sailorman was shipmates once with me,
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292.
The Rhyme Of The Rio Grande

In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,
I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I used to know;
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293.
The Rock

Here the inscrutable purpose of my God
Set me, to be to men a thing of hate,
Watching the way where the weary steamers plod,
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294.
The Roll-Call

Who hath heard the legions tramping?
Who hath heard the chargers champing?
Who hath looked upon the arming of the band?
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295.
The Sailor's Garden

There's a soft wind singing in the idle rigging,
High tide splashing, and a young pale moon,
Lights in a window and a fiddle jigging
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296.
The Search-Light, Kimberley, 1899-1900

Dark night upon the leaguered town,
And on the hidden foe;
Anxious the distant nation waits
For news of weal and woe.
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297.
The Shadow

By thronging mart and lonely hill,
By bridle-path and broad highway,
I, follower of the shadow, still
Follow a shadow night and day.
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298.
The Ship Of State

The Ship of State is strongly built,
Seaworn and seasoned well
By ages gone of storm and stress,
And foeman's shot and shell.
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299.
The Ship That Never Was

In Casey's Baltic Tavern Mike and I
Heard an old shellback praising to the sky,
With uncouth sailor oaths from foreign lands,
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300.
The Ship-Keeper

When dusk comes round again
And red goes down the sun,
And all the stevedore's men
Have finished up and gone;
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