The Queen Mary
Under the cloud’s icing, under the sky’s calm breast
O, beautiful the tozvering Clyde-built ship! Acclaim, proclaim her. Lo! the airplanes dip She moves, creation moves from active rest!
Steel, steam, vermilion-golden crozvncd, slow pressed,
Her weight of mountains with nor hitch nor slip
Slides onward lo the pasturing sea’s salt lip, Her realm henceforth the sun-cncompasscd West.
These made her: blood, brazen, brain, a nation's skill,
Ancestral Comet, Agamemnon’s fleet, Tamed ocean to be saddle to her will. Peace is her dominion. In peace let nations meet
The zvhile, majcstic-engincd, she sustains Mercurial course upon Atlantic plains. —William Jeffrey, in the Glasgow Herald.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 18
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107The Queen Mary Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 18
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