THE FLIGHT
by Betty McNiven
The King Bird fled with the Fairy Queen
into the Golden Dawn.
The Maris Stella watched their flight
while the rest of the world slept on.
The Busy Bee was the first to wake
and she went to the Mystical Rose.
'They have gone,' she cried, 'What can we do?
Perhaps Ben Gullion knows.'
'Let the Frigate Bird pursue,' he cried.
'in her garb of Silver Grey.'
And swift as a Crimson Arrow sped
the beautiful ship away.
Then Blue Bird said: I am swift as light;
Nulli Secundus am I.
I will bring them back or return no more'
and the Falcon made reply:
'Nil Desperandum; I will go forth
on this Enterprise with you.'
But the Goddess Felicia shook her head
and helped the lovers through.
And they came no more to their old Sweet Home
where the Kingfisher roves at will,
but the Ave Maria's sweet notes recall
the loch they both love still.
A poem incorporating the names of nineteen local fishing boats.