A Fragment

Beautiful star with the crimson lips

And flagrant daffodil hair,

Come back, come back, in the shaking ships

O'er the much-overrated sea,

To the hearts that are sick for thee

With a woe worse than mal de mer-

O beautiful stars with the crimson lips

And the flagrant daffodil hair. -

O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,

Neath the flag of the wan White Star,

Thou bringest a brighter star with thee

From the land of the Philistine,

Where Niagara's reckoned fine

And Tupper is popular-

O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,

Neath the flag of the wan White Star.