Eleanor-

Not to worry. I do have a copy now. Nice to have this old thread revived.

Here's the full citation for the poem:

From Ships and Folks, edited by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Elkin Mathews, London, UK, © 1920, pp. 50-51.

"Oh, wake her – oh, shake her!" are lines from the traditional shanty "Johnny Go Down to Hilo." There are similarities between this poem and "The Long Road Home," especially so in the third verse. A version of this poem was sent by the poet to her friend the American sea music collector Joanna Colcord.

This poem in abridged form, lacking the last verse, was set to music by Easthope Martin and published for school children in Five Chantey Songs, Enoch & Sons, London, UK, © 1920.

Re-adapted for singing by John and Joy Rennie of Dogwatch, as recorded on England Expects, © 2004. An alternative setting was subsequently done by Charles Ipcar as recorded on More Uncommon Sailor Songs, © 2005.

Since 2005, admirers of Cicely Fox Smith around the world have collected about 640 of her poems which are available on her page at the Oldpoetry website. (http://oldpoetry.com/home). We have also learned a lot more details about her life in England and in Victoria, British Columbia, which is summarized in her biography at Oldpoetry. Unfortunately, her journals have not surfaced but we can still hope. An anthology of her poems will be finally published next spring, as edited by myself and Jim Saville (who I first encountered in this thread!) by Little Red Tree Publishing in Mystic, Connecticut.

I have also published a songbook of the CFS poems, primarily the ones that I have set to music and recorded, available from my website (http://www.charlieipcar.com/) and Bob Zentz is in the final stages of publishing volume 2. In all over 70 CFS poems have already been recorded as songs in the last 15 years, with more in process.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble