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,