The long smoke wavers on the homeward track,

Back fly with winds things which the winds obey—

The strong ship follows its appointed way.

A. H. Clough (Songs in Absence).

I have ventured to put quotation marks in the above to make the meaning clear at first view. Also—but that italics seldom look well in a poem—I would have written the last two lines as follows:

Back fly with winds things which the winds obey

The strong ship follows its appointed way.


When thou must home to shades of underground,

And there arrived, a new admirèd guest,