- 1. The 'bulletin' Stairs
The Mecca of Bohemian men
Was Archibald's untidy den.
Firm-footed near the portals there
Uprose, as now, a spacious stair
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- 2. The Great Grey Water
Now two have met, now two have met,
Who may not meet againâ??
Two grains of sand, two blades of grass,
Two threads within the skeinâ??
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- 3. Vive Anarchy
With the lifting of the curtain,
Distance, dim, but grimly certain,
Breaks my vision of a city, populous and great,
To my senses, sorrow-sated,
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- 4. Shadows
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- 5. The Wardens Of The Seas
Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul
Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,
Across and o'er the oceans, on all the coasts they stand
Tall seneschals of commerce, High Wardens of the Strand --
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- 6. Twilight
When a heavy surf is droning
In the twilight on the bar;
When our Mother Sea is crooning
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- 7. Roderic Quinn
No more will Rod his lyrics sing,
As tuneful as the thrush when Spring
With minstrel voice is calling;
As joyous as the gentle chime
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