Queen among ships, and named for a well-loved queen,
Fair be her landfalls, and her years serene,
Such uneventful and unstoried years
As in passing, clean of blood and tears,
Make ships, like nations, blessed. May she be
A happy ship for such use the sea —
The day she heralds be that of all our dreaming,
With shipyards once more clanging, seaports- teeming
With flags and funnels and derricks as of yore.
Such be her happy fortune — aye, and more,
This be her mission and her task, to bind
As by a bridge invisible, mind to mind,
Sharers of kindred knowledge, kindred speech,
In knowledge and in friendship each with each;
And so foreshadow some far brighter day
When fear and hate shall pass at last away
And all men harvest the good earth’s increase,
Labour and traffic, sow and reap in peace. . . .
(Cicely Fox Smith)
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