The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4., Personal Poems, To a Cape Ann Schooner.

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To a Cape Ann Schooner.

luck to the craft that bears this name of mine,
     Good fortune follow with her golden spoon
The glazed hat and tarry pantaloon;
     And wheresoe'er her keel shall cut the brine,
Cod, hake and haddock quarrel for her line.
     Shipped with her crew, whatever wind may blow,
Or tides delay, my wish with her shall go,
     Fishing by proxy. Would that it might show
At need her course, in lack of sun and star,
     Where icebergs threaten, and the sharp reefs are;
Lift the blind fog on Anticosti's lee
     And Avalon's rock; make populous the sea
Round Grand Manan with eager finny swarms,
     Break the long calms, and charm away the storms.

oak Knoll, 23 3rd mo., 1886.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888-89.

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