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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Song: ‘The boat is chafing at our long delay’

John Davidson (1857–1909)

THE BOAT is chafing at our long delay,

And we must leave too soon

The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne spray,

The tawny sands, the moon.

Keep us, O Thetis, in our western flight!

Watch from thy pearly throne

Our vessel, plunging deeper into night

To reach a land unknown.