Miscellaneous Poems to 1920/The Flower Boat
3. The Flower Boat
(From The Youth’s Companion, May 20, 1909.)
The fisherman’s swapping a yarn for a yarn
Under the hand of the village barber,
And here in the angle of house and barn
His deep-sea dory has found a harbor.
At anchor she rides the sunny sod5
As full to the gunnel with flowers a-growing
As ever she turned her home with cod
From George’s Bank when winds were blowing.
And I know from that Elysian freight
She will brave but once more the Atlantic weather,10
When dory and fisherman sail by fate
To seek for the Happy Isles together.