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No, the lines are lifted directly from her sea poem (and Danny and Joyce take great pains not to alter a single line or word of C. Fox Smith's sea poems unlike me). The "road" may simplely refer to the sea route back and forth. In another of her sea poems, "Flying-Fish Sailor", she speaks of "the road of the flying-fish sailor" vividly describing the different stretches from England to the Far East. But who knows? Any other brilliant ideas?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble