Songs of Sea and Sail

<h2>THE YACHT.</h2> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">How like a queen she walks the summer sea;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Her canvas crowning well the comely mold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Light loved until it lifts a spire of gold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Outlined and inset by a tracery</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of rig and spar. Hers is a witchery</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of loveliness, that seems to draw and hold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The wind to do its bidding. Fold on fold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The seas charge in; then stricken by the free</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Quick lancing of her stem recoil to break</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Against the breeze; then rushing back they foam</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Along the rail, and swirl into the wake,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And rave astern in many a wrinkled dome.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">For thus she doth her windward way betake</span><br/> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</SPAN></span></p> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Like one who lives to conquer and to roam.</span><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />