<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544076" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Wool Fleet Chorus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fare you well, you Sydney girls, time for us to go!<br>The Peter's at the fore truck, and five thousand bales below,<br>We've a dozen shellbacks forrard, and a skipper hard as nails,<br>And we're bound for old England and the January sales!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon we'll leave the Snares behind, blusterous and strong<br>Up'll come the Westerlies and hustle her along:<br>Running like a driven deer through the thundering gales,<br>Racing under royals for the January Sales!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Cape Stiff 'll drop astern, like a blinking dream,<br>Sleet and snow and crashing seas, fog and ice'll seem,<br>Snoring through the Tropics with a Trade that never fails,<br>Nor'ard on a bowline for the January sales!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the girls'll get her towrope, and she'll smell the land again,<br>And she'll reel the knots off steady as a blessed railway train,<br>Till seventy days from Sydney Heads the Lizard light she hails -<br>First to the Channel for the January sales!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cicely+Fox+Smith">Cicely Fox Smith</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=544076" data-title="A Wool Fleet Chorus de Cicely Fox Smith" data-description="Fare you well, you Sydney girls, time for us to go! The Peter's at the fore truck, and five thousand bales below, We've a dozen shellbacks forrard, and a skipper hard as nails, And we're bound for old England and the January sales! Soon we'll lea..."></div> </div> </div>

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