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Burt</span><span id="ws-author">Alfred Tennyson</span></div></div> <div class="prp-pages-output" lang="en"> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="246" data-page-number="246" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/284" data-page-index="284" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/284"><span id="pageindex_284" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r13089542">.mw-parser-output .wst-center{text-align:center;display:table;margin:0 auto 0 auto}.mw-parser-output .wst-center.wst-center-nomargin>p{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="wst-center tiInherit wst-center-nomargin"> <p><b>The Revenge.</b> </p><p><span style="font-size: 83%;">A BALLAD OF THE FLEET.</span> </p> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r13348679">.mw-parser-output .wst-size-block{line-height:1.4}.mw-parser-output .wst-xx-smaller{font-size:58%}.mw-parser-output .wst-x-smaller{font-size:69%}.mw-parser-output .wst-smaller{font-size:83%}.mw-parser-output .wst-fine{line-height:1.4;font-size:92%}.mw-parser-output .wst-m-larger{font-size:110%}.mw-parser-output .wst-larger{font-size:120%}.mw-parser-output .wst-x-larger{font-size:144%}.mw-parser-output .wst-xx-larger{font-size:182%}.mw-parser-output .wst-xxx-larger{font-size:207%}.mw-parser-output .wst-xxxx-larger{font-size:249%}</style><div class="wst-size-block wst-smaller wst-smaller-block"> <p>Tennyson's (1807-92) "The <i>Revenge</i>" finds a welcome here because it is a favourite with teachers of elocution and their audiences. It teaches us to hold life cheap when the nation's safety is at stake. </p> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r14263552">.mw-parser-output .wst-block-center{display:table;margin:0 auto;padding:0;position:relative;width:auto;max-width:100%;height:auto;text-align:initial}.mw-parser-output .wst-block-center-title{display:table-caption;text-align:center}</style><div class="wst-block-center"> <p><span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">At</span> Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,<br /> And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from away:<br /> "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!"<br /> Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: "'Fore God, I am no coward;<br /> But I cannot meet them here, for my ships are out of gear,<br /> And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but follow quick.<br /> We are six ships of the line; can we fight with fifty-three?" </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="__nop wst-nop"></div> <p> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="247" data-page-number="247" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/285" data-page-index="285" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/285"><span id="pageindex_285" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span>Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: "I know you are no coward;<br /> You fly them for a moment, to fight with them again.<br /> But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.<br /> I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,<br /> To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain." </p><p><br /> So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day,<br /> Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven;<br /> But Sir Richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land<br /> Very carefully and slow,<br /> Men of Bideford in Devon,<br /> And we laid them on the ballast down below;<br /> For we brought them all aboard,<br /> And they blest him in their pain that they were not left to Spain,<br /> To the thumbscrew and the stake, for the glory of the Lord. </p><p><br /> He had only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight,<br /> And he sail'd away from Flores till the Spaniard came in sight,<br /> With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather bow.<br /> "Shall we fight or shall we fly?<br /> Good Sir Richard, tell us now,<br /> For to fight is but to die!<br /> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="248" data-page-number="248" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/286" data-page-index="286" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/286"><span id="pageindex_286" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span>There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set."<br /> And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good Englishmen.<br /> Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,<br /> For I never turn'd my back upon Don or devil yet." </p><p><br /> Sir Richard spoke and he laugh'd, and we roar'd a hurrah, and so<br /> The little <i>Revenge</i> ran on sheer into the heart of the foe,<br /> With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below;<br /> For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen,<br /> And the little <i>Revenge</i> ran on thro' the long sea-lane between. </p><p><br /> Thousands of their soldiers look'd down from their decks and laugh'd,<br /> Thousands of their seamen made mock at the mad little craft<br /> Running on and on, till delay'd<br /> By their mountain-like <i>San Philip</i> that, of fifteen hundred tons,<br /> And up-shadowing high above us with her yawning tiers of guns,<br /> Took the breath from our sails, and we stay'd. </p><p><br /> And while now the great <i>San Philip</i> hung above us like a cloud<br /> Whence the thunderbolt will fall<br /> Long and loud,<br /> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="249" data-page-number="249" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/287" data-page-index="287" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/287"><span id="pageindex_287" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span>Four galleons drew away<br /> From the Spanish fleet that day,<br /> And two upon the larboard and two upon the starboard lay,<br /> And the battle-thunder broke from them all. </p><p><br /> But anon the great <i>San Philip</i>, she bethought herself and went,<br /> Having that within her womb that had left her ill content;<br /> And the rest they came aboard us, and they fought us hand to hand,<br /> For a dozen times they came with their pikes and musqueteers,<br /> And a dozen times we shook 'em off as a dog that shakes his ears<br /> When he leaps from the water to the land. </p><p><br /> And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,<br /> But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three;<br /> Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,<br /> Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame;<br /> Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and her shame.<br /> For some were sunk and many were shatter'd, and so could fight us no more—<br /> God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before? </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="__nop wst-nop"></div> <p> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="250" data-page-number="250" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/288" data-page-index="288" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/288"><span id="pageindex_288" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span>For he said, "Fight on! fight on!"<br /> Tho' his vessel was all but a wreck;<br /> And it chanced that, when half of the short summer night was gone,<br /> With a grisly wound to be drest he had left the deck,<br /> But a bullet struck him that was dressing it suddenly dead,<br /> And himself he was wounded again in the side and the head,<br /> And he said, "Fight on! Fight on!" </p><p><br /> And the night went down, and the sun smiled out far over the summer sea,<br /> And the Spanish fleet with broken sides lay round us all in a ring;<br /> But they dared not touch us again, for they fear'd that we still could sting,<br /> So they watch'd what the end would be.<br /> And we had not fought them in vain,<br /> But in perilous plight were we,<br /> Seeing forty of our poor hundred were slain,<br /> And half of the rest of us maim'd for life<br /> In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife;<br /> And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold,<br /> And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it spent;<br /> And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side;<br /> But Sir Richard cried in his English pride:<br /> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="251" data-page-number="251" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. Burt, 1904).djvu/289" data-page-index="289" data-page-quality="4" title="Page:Poems_that_every_child_should_know_(ed._Burt,_1904).djvu/289"><span id="pageindex_289" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span>"We have fought such a fight for a day and a night<br /> As may never be fought again!<br /> We have won great glory, my men!<br /> And a day less or more<br /> At sea or ashore,<br /> We die—does it matter when?<br /> Sink me the ship, Master Gunner—sink her, split her in twain!<br /> Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!" </p><p><br /> And the gunner said, "Ay, ay," but the seamen made reply:<br /> "We have children, we have wives,<br /> And the Lord hath spared our lives.<br /> We will make the Spaniard promise, if we yield, to let us go;<br /> We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow."<br /> And the lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the foe.<br /> And the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore him then,<br /> Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard caught at last,<br /> And they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace;<br /> But he rose upon their decks, and he cried:<br /> "I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;<br /> I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do.<br /> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="252" data-page-number="252" data-page-name="Page:Poems that every child should know (ed. 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