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Land ho! Yes! At the end of our week at sea we spotted the first sighting of land off the coast of Ireland, then England came into view. Soon we saw other ships passing and by dawn we pulled into Southampton where buses were lined up ready to take us to our destinations. It was pouring rain. Welcome to England!
The great poets came to mind, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Yeats (half Irish), T.S. Eliot (born in America), Browning, and so many more, as I had watched the beloved land of my forefathers emerge as if born out of the sea. And the memory returned of Father who had saluted every Union Jack we came across while boating on the Great Lakes during my childhood. Our roots are important to us and we should never forget them, nor the reasons why our ancestors came to America.
