Bradfordian-

I believe you have nailed another poem, one that has eluded our search to date. The poet did several poems about figureheads but this one is not among those that Jim Saville and I have harvested.

Many of C. Fox Smith's poems were first published in Punch Magazine, beginning in 1914. These magazines are now available on-line, almost all up to 1920. And the ones published after that date are certainly available in libraries or at used book stores but no one has gone through them systematically. We fully expect that there should be a few more poems to harvest in this magazine and a few other magazines.

Note to those who would consider doing more library research on Punch:

Every six months Punch published an index (June and December) and if a poem by C. Fox Smith were published in the previous issues it would be found lurking under "Fox-Smith."

Thanks so much for bringing this poem, #551, to our attention!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, co-editor of the Cicely Fox Smith Anthology