title: Days into Flatspin: Poems
author:  Ken Babstock 
description: <B>Ken Babstock</B> was born in Newfoundland and grew up in the Ottawa Valley. He currently lives in Toronto.
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  The Englishman and Other Poems
  
  
  PREFACE—THE QUEEN'S LAST RIDE
  
  THE ENGLISHMAN
  
  CANADA
  
  THE CALL
  
  CORONATION POEM AND PRAYER
  
  TWO VOICES
  
  A BALLADE OF THE UNBORN DEAD
  
  THE TRUTH TELLER
  
  JUST YOU
  
  REFLECTION
  
  SONGS OF LOVE AND THE SEA
  
  ACQUAINTANCE
  
  IN INDIA'S DREAMY LAND
  
  RANGOON
  
  THOUGHTS ON LEAVING JAPAN
  
  ON SEEING THE DIABUTSU—AT KAMAKURA, JAPAN
  
  THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BULLOCK CART
  
  EAST AND WEST
  
  THE SQUANDERER
  
  COMPENSATIONS
  
  SONG OF THE RAIL
  
  ALWAYS AT SEA
  
  THE SUITORS
  
  THE JEALOUS GODS
  
  GOD RULES ALWAY
  
  THE CURE
  
  THE FORECAST
  
  LITTLE GIRLS
  
  SCIENCE
  
  THE EARTH
  
  THE MUSE AND THE POET
  
  THE SPINSTER
  
  BROTHERHOOD
  
  'THE TAVERN OF LAST TIMES'(AT BOX HILL, SURREY)
  
  
  THE TWO AGES
  
  IF I WERE
  
  WARNED
  
  FORWARD
  
  IN ENGLAND
  
  KARMA
  
  THE GOSSIPS
  
  TOGETHER
  
  PETITION
  
  A WAFT OF PERFUME
  
  THE PLOUGH
  
  GO PLANT A TREE
  
  PAIN'S PURPOSE
  
  MEMORY'S MANSION
  
  OLD RHYTHM AND RHYME
  
  ALL IN A COACH AND FOUR
  
  SONGS OF A COUNTRY HOME
  
  WORTHY THE NAME OF 'SI