From 1931 Boston Globe report “Tableau of the Nativity is set up in home of an Italian” at 15 Middle St. #GloucesterMA

To A Cape Ann Schooner

Luck to the craft that bears this name of mine,

Good fortune follow with her golden spoon

The glazed hat and tarry pantaloon;

And wheresoe’er her keel shall cut the brine,

Cod, hake and haddock quarrel for her line.

Shipped with her crew, whatever wind may blow,

Or tides delay, my wish with her shall go,

Fishing by proxy. Would that it might show

At need her course, in lack of sun and star,

Where icebergs threaten, and the sharp reefs are;

Lift the blind fog on Anticosti’s lee

And Avalon’s rock; make populous the sea

Round Grand Manan with eager finny swarms,

Break the long calms, and charm away the storms.

(1886 poem)

John Greenleaf Whittier