<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562001" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>London Seagulls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's,<br>That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls,<br>The pearl-grey dawns of London, his sky that gleams and glooms,<br>His stately smoky sunsets are in their changing plumes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The saucy London sparrows, their Cockney chatter tells<br>Their parents nested surely in earshot of Bow Bells . . .<br>But Oh! the London seagulls a-cruising up and down,<br>They're most like old-time seamen come back to London town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old salty swearing seadogs and tarry buccaneers,<br>With bacca quids and pigtails and ear-rings in their ears,<br>That spent their money handsome and took their ease ashore<br>In rowdy Ratcliff aleshops with sand upon the floor . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And bawled their old sea-ballads, and told their thumping lies, <br>In fearsome deep sea lingo to open landsmen's eyes,<br>And drained their brimming pewters, and spat into the tide,<br>In old shipboarded taverns by Wapping waterside . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And saw there at their moorings the Geordie colliers rock,<br>The latest pirate dangling at Execution Dock,<br>The anchored ships unloading their silks and laces fine,<br>And spices from the Indies, and rum, and Spanish wine . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And watched the busy wherries all plying with their fares,<br>From Globe, Jamaica, Wapping and Cherry Garden Stairs,<br>And the lighters and the barges a-passing to and fro<br>As they did on London River two hundred years ago.</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=562001" data-title="London Seagulls de Cicely Fox Smith" data-description="The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's, That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls, The pearl-grey dawns of London, his sky that gleams and glooms, His stately smoky sunsets are in their changing plumes. The saucy London spar..."></div> </div> </div>

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