Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial

by H. L. Mencken

Rattle of box and bale,

The ships of the earth are at their docks,

Back from the world-round trail—

Back from the wild waste northward,

Back from the wind and the lea,

Back from the ports of East and West,

Back from the under sea.

Here is a bark from Rio,

Back—and away she steals!

Here, from her trip, is a clipper ship