<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By The Old Pagoda Anchorage [1924]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong,<br>And their spars were like a forest, and their names were like a song.<br>Fiery Cross and Falcon there<br>Lay with Spindrift, doomed and fair,<br>And Sir Lancelot of a hundred famous fights with wind and wave,<br>Belted Will and Hallowe'en<br>With Leander there were seen,<br>And Ariel and Titania and Robin Hood the brave . . .<br>Thyatira of the lovely name and proud Thermopylae,<br>By the old Pagoda Anchorage when clippers sailed the sea -<br>Racing home to London River -<br>Carry on for London River -<br>Crack her on for London River with her chests of China tea!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the old Pagoda Anchorage (it's many a year ago!)<br>A sight it was to see them with their decks like drifted snow,<br>And their brasses winking bright,<br>And the gleaming gold and white<br>Of the carven kings and maidens on each slim and soaring bow,<br>And the high and slender spars<br>Humming shanties to the stars,<br>And the hulls whose speed and staunchness are a dead man's secret now, -<br>The ships so brave and beautiful that never more shall be,<br>By the old Pagoda Anchorage when clippers sailed the sea -<br>Racing home to London River -<br>Crack her on for London River -<br>Carry on for London River with her chests of China tea!</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=547738" data-title="By The Old Pagoda Anchorage [1924] de Cicely Fox Smith" data-description="By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong, And their spars were like a forest, and their names were like a song. Fiery Cross and Falcon there Lay with Spindrift, doomed and fair, And Sir Lancelot of a hundred famous fights with wind..."></div> </div> </div>

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