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August	A
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O mystery of noble hearts	B
To whom mysterious seas have been	C
In midnight watches lonely calm and storm	D
A stern sad disciple	E
And rooted out the false and vain	F
And chastened them to aptness for	G
Devotion and the deeds of war	G
And death which smiles and cheers in spite of pain	F
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Beyond the bar the land wind dies	H
The prows becharmed at anchor swim	I
A summer night the stars withdrawn look down	J
Fair eve of battle grim	I
The sentries pace bonetas glide	K
Below the sleeping sailor swing	L
And it their dreams to quarters spring	L
Or cheer their flag or breast a stormy tide	K
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But drums are beat Up anchor all	M
The triple lines steam slowly on	N
Day breaks and through the sweep of decks each man	O
Stands coldly by his gun	P
As cold as it But he shall warm	D
Warm with the solemn metal there	Q
And all its ordered fury share	Q
In attitude a gladiatorial form	D
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The Admiral yielding the the love	R
Which held his life and ship so dear	S
Sailed second in the long fleet's midmost line	T
Yet thwarted all their care	Q
He lashed himself aloft and shone	U
Star of the fight with influence sent	V
Throughout the dusk embattlement	V
And so they neared the strait and walls of stone	U
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No sprintly fife as in the field	V
The decks were hushed like fanes in prayer	Q
Behind each man a holy angel stood	V
He stood though none was 'ware	Q
Out spake the forts on either hand	V
Back speak the ships when spoken to	V
And set their flags in concert true	V
And On and in is Farragut's command	V
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But what delays 'mid wounds above	R
Dim buoys give hint of death below	W
Sea ambuscades where evil art had aped	V
Hecla that hides in snow	W
The centre van entangled trips	X
The starboard leader holds straight on	N
A cheer for the Tecumseh nay	Y
Before their eyes the turreted ship goes down	J
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The fire redoubles While the fleet	V
Hangs dubious ere the horror ran	O
The Admiral rushes to his rightful place	Z
Well met apt hour and man	O
Closes with peril takes the lead	V
His action is a stirring call	M
He strikes his great heart through them all	M
And is the genius of their daring deed	V
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The forts are daunted slack their fire	Q
Confounded by the deadlier aim	A2
And rapid broadsides of the speeding fleet	V
And fierce denouncing flame	A2
Yet shots from four dark hulls embayed	V
Come raking through the loyal crews	B2
Whom now each dying mate endues	B2
With his last look anguished yet undismayed	V
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A flowering time to guilt is given	P
And traitors have their glorying hour	Q
O late but sure the righteous Paramount comes	B2
Palsy is on their power	Q
So proved it with the rebel keels	B2
The strong holds past assailed they run	P
The Selma strikes and the work is done	P
The dropping anchor the achievement seals	B2
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But no she turns the Tennessee	B2
The solid Ram of iron and oak	C2
Strong as Evil and bold as Wrong though lone	U
A pestilence in her smoke	C2
The flag ship is her singled mark	D2
The wooden Hartford Let her come	E2
She challenges the planet of Doom	F2
And naught shall save her not her iron bark	D2
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Slip anchor all and at her all	M
Bear down with rushing beaks and now	G2
First the Monongahela struck and reeled	V
The Lackawana's prow	G2
Next crashed crashed but not crashing then	H2
The Admiral rammed and rasping nigh	I2
Sloped in a broadside which glanced by	I2
The Monitors battered at her adamant den	H2
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The Chickasaw plunged beneath the stern	J2
And pounded there a huge wrought orb	K2
From the Manhattan pierced one wall but dropped	V
Others the seas absorb	K2
Yet stormed on all sides narrowed in	C
Hampered and cramped the bad one fought	V
Spat ribald curses from the port	V
Who shutters jammed locked up this Man of Sin	C
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No pause or stay They made a din	C
Like hammers round a boiler forged	V
Now straining strength tangled itself with strength	L2
Till Hate her will disgorged	V
The white flag showed the fight was won	P
Mad shouts went up that shook the Bay	Y
But pale on the scarred fleet's decks there lay	Y
A silent man for every silenced gun	P
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And quiet far below the wave	M2
Where never cheers shall move their sleep	N2
Some who did boldly nobly earn them lie	I2
Charmed children of the deep	N2
But decks that now are in the seed	V
And cannon yet within the mine	T
Shall thrill the deeper gun and pine	T
Because of the Tecumseh's glorious deed	V

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