<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Fisher-Lad</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"<span class="smallcaps">Farewell</span> and good-bye to you, maiden of Teifi,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Farewell and good-bye to you, dear Teifi maid!</p><p class="line">The jolly-boat's waiting, I'm off in a jiffy,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To scouting and cruising, to chase and to raid.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Ah, <em>cariad</em>, say, when you see in the offing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Dark on the blue waters of Cardigan Bay,</p><p class="line">Our smoke-stack just showing, then will you be doffing</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your bonnet to wave us a parting 'huay'?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Once homeward I'd run, tho' the black scud was flying,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the breakers were howling like fiends on our lee,</p><p class="line">With every stitch set, ever danger defying,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For, <em>anwyl</em>, I know that you watched on the quay.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"In vain will you watch for your fisher-lad's skiff, he</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Is tracking the death that the foeman has laid;</p><p class="line">If Death is the end of it, dear maid of Teifi,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Farewell and good-bye to you, dear Teifi maid !"</p></div><p class="byline">-- J. A. Nicklin.</p></body></html> · Great War