The Colonial Clippers

by Basil Lubbock

PART III.—“THE IRON CLIPPERS.”

Fill us with wool till we’re nigh overflowing,

Send us away when strong breezes are blowing,

And we’ll show all the others the road.

The tug boat is coming for us in the morn,

We’ll drive her like blazes from here to the Horn,

For the main royal shall never be stowed.—

J. St. A. Jewell.