A LEGEND OF THE FLEET.
Since Nelson went to glory , A hundred years ago (No man can hear the story But still it makes him glow), There's lots of old wiseacres , Longshoremen and beadshakcra Who say, "We have none like him — His like we'll never know '."■ And maybe they speak rightly, For God Himself, you'd say, Would scare start making lightly Another piece of clay Filled with (his high devotions, His -brain that raced the oceans, His heart of fire and swiftness That won. Trafalger Day. Yet on the other hand, sirs, There's some folks that declare — Strange stuff to tell on -land, sirs, But sailor men — they'll swear — > When Nelson went to glory, His heart, for that's their storyAfire he flung it to the- Fleet, And still it's blazing there ! So when our grim, grey cruisers Nose out tlie skulking foe, And, beggars not being choosers, Their guns begin to crow, Though Nelson's gone to glory Twill be the same old story — ' His Heart, his heart will lead* us, And them that doubt will know. '. — R, E. Vernede. 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13546, 25 November 1914, Page 3
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180A LEGEND OF THE FLEET. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13546, 25 November 1914, Page 3
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