A FLEET ACTION.
Strong raged the wintry gal*, Rolling and lieavinu: Groundfuveil. with blinding hail, Spindrift and sleet. Lost was the landward light, And we were leaving "Britfiin in dread that night— I We ot the fleet
Da'.vn f the Allies ahead, Viiv o'er the eastward spread. Swinging groy squadrons round Tailing their ground! Out of the stormy dark. Straight at us. racing, stark. Born out: of mighty terror, » On came ire- Death.
Hear! Dread Almighty, hear! The dying hail TheeWe t.het are, post all fear. . As. a re. Thy dead ! God. Thou hast made us men- - We shall not fail Thee; Save Thou our country then— Take us instead !
Christ's lovp shall understand Lorp for our Mother Land: Britain mw rast unharmed Wliph love is armed Minpn. shelled, torpedoed, rammsd Burned, stifled, drownpd, damned. Lord God of Hosts, avenge us : Ood save the State!" Blood splashing overhead! All drowned in lying, Torn and dismembprVl d*nd. In the red hell! Flame sweeps the reeling deck— Screams of the dying— Lashed from each blazing wreck. Ousts of live shell ! Onward 5n line ahead. Past dying ships and dead. See their doomed squadron". re*l Under our steel! Til blood, in fire, in pain. Britain's avenged again— God gives Victorious Britain Rule of the Sen ! —Foger "Pococfc
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 10
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214A FLEET ACTION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 10
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