From Nobby
A poem by C.Fox Smith From SONGS OF GREATER BRITAIN, © 1899, pp. 115-116.
PENMAENMAWR

Betwixt twin forts by nature plann'd
Slumbers the little drowsy town
While wooded heights, serene and grand,
Slope down to meet the sand
From uplands wild and brown

Far out to sea the vessels lie,
Where wild white steeds are leaping free,
And far as roves the wand`ring eye
There is no cloud in yon clear sky,
No shadow on the sea

Peace,sweetest peace on sea and land
Save when,upon the laughing breeze,
There floats across the gleaming bay
A sound of children at their play
Beside the sunny seas.

Peace,sweetest peace on sea and land
Lulling to rest the wearied brain,
Amid the mountains calm and grand,
Grey cliff,and sickle-sweep of sand,
And everlasting main.


Penmaenmawr being in North Wales, west of Llandudno, UK.

`A Sea Burthen`has been put to music by Jacqui Haigh a local Bristol songwriter and performed in Harmony on the CD`Rolling Home To Bristol`by The Harry Browns Of Bristol.

I have found her most interesting book to be ALL THE WAY ROUND Published by Michael Joseph London 1938; it is somewhat autobiographical in its beginning, where CFS realises a childhood dream of visiting Africa, partly inspired by her reading of Rider Haggard novels, the adventures of`Allan Quatemain`and seeing the painting`The Last Trek` by J.G.Millais. She was a student at the Manchester School Of Art, a contemporary of the Pankhursts. CFS refers to herself as being more militant than the militants of the future in the persons of the Pankhursts who were looked upon in those days as`REDS`and the most `Aggressive of Pro-Boers.` CFS stuffed sheaves of propaganda down the lavatory of the Manchester School Of Art, the story goes on. Keep searchin, Nobby