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WEATHERCOCK.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can see the roofs and the streets below,

And the people moving to and fro,

And beyond, without either roof or street,

The great salt sea, and the fisherman's fleet.

 

I can see a ship come sailing in

Beyond the headlands and harbor of Lynn,

And a young man standing on the deck,

With a silken kerchief round his neck.

 

Now he is pressing it to his lips,

And now he is kissing his finger-tips,

And now he is lifting and waving his hand

And blowing the kisses toward the land.