Cicely Fox Smith Poems

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91.
The Figurehead

In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show -
Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row on row,
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92.
The Finger Post

Across the field, beyond the church.
You see the sign post stand.
And towards the highway lean and lurch.
With crazy outstretched hand.
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93.
The First Ship

This is the ship the Man built . . .
In time's grey dawn, by the unsailed sea,
Hairy and lonely and wild stood he.
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94.
The Five Ricks

Five ricks in a row
Stand in my father's field, I know,
Five ricks beside the hedge
That marks the long field's topmost edge . . .
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95.
The Flying-Fish Sailor

'The Western Ocean rolls and roars
From Sandy Hook to Europe's shores,
From Fastnet Light to Portland, Maine,
And Newport News and back again,
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96.
The Foremost Trail

We've drunk our fill of pleasure,
Of town-bred ease and mirth;
Our hearts are fain to wander
The utmost ends of earth.
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97.
The Four Buglers

In the high halls of morning,
Where the red dawnlights glow,
On the threshold of sunrise
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98.
The Grey Comrades

Out of the dust of cities and the din of men
I come to the clean spaces of the wide windy moors,
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99.
The Grey Wolf

The grey wolf stood in the ruin hoar,
The wolf that hunts alone:
His shadow lay along the floor,
Athwart the cold hearthstone.
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100.
The Half Loaf

There ain't the tall windjammers like we knew when we was young,
With their masts as made a forest every water-front along;
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