<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409966" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Good Craft _Snow Bird_</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strenuous need that head-wind be<br>From purposed voyage that drives at last<br>The ship, sharp-braced and dogged still,<br>Beating up against the blast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brigs that figs for market gather,<br>Homeward-bound upon the stretch,<br>Encounter oft this uglier weather<br>Yet in end their port they fetch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mark yon craft from sunny Smyrna<br>Glazed with ice in Boston Bay;<br>Out they toss the fig-drums cheerly,<br>Livelier for the frosty ray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if sleet off-shore assailed her,<br>What though ice yet plate her yards;<br>In wintry port not less she renders<br>Summer's gift with warm regards!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, look, the underwriters' man,<br>Timely, when the stevedore's done,<br>Puts on his _specs_ to pry and scan,<br>And sets her down--_A, No. 1._</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bravo, master! Bravo, brig!<br>For slanting snows out of the West<br>Never the _Snow-Bird_ cares one fig;<br>And foul winds steady her, though a pest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409966" data-title="The Good Craft _Snow Bird_ de Herman Melville" data-description="Strenuous need that head-wind be From purposed voyage that drives at last The ship, sharp-braced and dogged still, Beating up against the blast. Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather..."></div> </div> </div>

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