Finally, we get a chance to update this thread! Danny McLeod just got back to the Uk and was gracious enough to immediately send me the words for "Rosario" as they appear in his CFS poetry manuscript and the mystery fragment is the last verse! Here is the complete poem:

Rosario

(Original Poem by Cicely Fox Smith, Danny McLeod's Manuscript, circa 1920)

Early in the morning as the moon was in the sky,
Early in the morning I kissed my girl goodbye,
For kissing-time is over and it's time and time to go
When you've a long road to travel to Rosario!

Oh wake her, oh shake her! And the Peter's flying free,
And the pilot's come aboard her, and she's hungry for the sea.
Kissing time is over; And it's time and time to go
And "a long road to travel to Rosario!"

Summer'll soon be over, the leaves'll fade and die,
And white on every furrow the winter snows'll lie,
But we're bound for the long furrows where never lies the snow,
And we've a long road to travel to Rosario!

Oh wake her – oh shake her! And the cable surges in
To the roar of a chanty chorus as we make the handspikes spin.
Oh she's bound for the long furrows where never lies the snow.
And "a long road to travel to Rosario!"

And now she smells the deep sea, and now she's gathering way,
And now she meets the rollers in a white smother of spray,
Sou'west an' a half west, and steady as we go,
And "a long road to travel to Rosario!"

Oh, wake her – oh, shake her! – and it's good-bye to the shore,
With the north wind in her topsails, and the whole wide world before…
Sou'west an' a half west, and steady as you go….
And a long road to travel to Rosario!"

I would suggest that the version of the poem that was published in FIVE CHANTEY SONGS, Enoch & Sons, © 1920, was edited for distribution to the school children, and in my opinion the editing did not improve the poem.

Now I think I'll see what I can do to adapt this poem for singing.

Thanks again for all the help and interest. I'm also posting this poem to Oldpoetry.com which has recently experienced a great surge of CFS poems being posted.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble