Word-Smithing from Smyrna or Lyrical lines from Lydia {2}.
A year ago, ‘Hanging by a thread‘ traced the delicate strands which led to establishing the family of John Harper Smith junior, master mariner {1}. I speculated that the reasons he and his spouse couldn’t be found in 1871 and 1881 England census was that they could be on voyages out of British waters.
Now there is some indication of this, in the shape of a poem of his penned from port:
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