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In the vapour and haze on the ocean	A
Where the skies and the waters meet	B
There's a form that drifts phantom like onward	C
As it follows the grey clouds' feet	B
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O'er the sea come the winds and the billows	D
And they howl to the rocks and they cry	E
They will bring them a wreck on the morrow	F
Ere the joy of the tempest die	E
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The shade looming dark in the distance	G
Is naught but a galleon proud	H
And the spray has long battered her turrets	I
And loosened each yard and each shroud	H
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But not on the surf beaten islands	J
Nor yet upon Morven's land	K
Does she drive for her rudder unshattered	K
Is firm in the steersman's hand	K
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No mist wreath no cloud was the shadow	K
That moved on the height of the seas	L
Like a castle how steep are her bulwarks	L
Her spars like a forest of trees	L
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She is safe from the gales for a season	A
In the shelter and calm of the sound	K
A harbour named after the Virgin	M
The Well of Our Lady she found	K
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She may rest in that haven hill girdled	K
Near the shade of the woods on the shore	N
Where the hush of the forest is deepened	K
By the waterfall's song evermore	N
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How grandly her masts rise to heaven	A
How glitters the blest Mary's form	O
High placed o'er the stern and upholding	P
The Prince of our Peace through the storm	O
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Now waters their orisons murmur	Q
As they fold her bright robes to their breast	K
Where they mirror the galleried windows	L
And the flag and the face of the Blest	K
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Again with that sign and the banner	Q
Of the gold and the crimson of Spain	R
Shall this ship front the foes of the Virgin	M
And the English be chased from the Main	R
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Yes again on the heretic Saxon	A
Her cannon shall thunder in scorn	S
Till in triumph through insolent England	K
Shall the Faith and King Philip be borne	S
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But the rows of dark mouths that have spoken	A
Defiance with sulphurous breath	T
Glisten black stretching forth in the silence	L
And in vain ask the presence of death	T
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Yes repose and surcease of all hazard	K
A truce to all war for a time	U
The cliffs and the pines only echo	K
The laugh of a sunnier clime	U
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And gaily the dark visaged seamen	A
Quaff cursing the mists and the rain	R
Gravely drinking from goblets of silver	Q
Sits their chief Don Fereija of Spain	R
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But the souls of the men to whose nostrils	L
Had risen the smoke of the fight	K
Soon tired of the shore and of slumber	Q
Soon yearned for the red battle light	K
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And courtesy fled from the weary	V
From idleness arrogance grew	W
And all they received as a favour	W
They haughtily claimed as their due	W
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Then answered the Islesmen in anger	W
The food you demand as your own	X
By our people's free favour long given	A
Shall be bought by your gold now alone	X
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Now down with the savage's envoy	Y
Set sail and away on our track	Z
Carthagena's sweet girls shall deride him	U
And jeer the red locks on his back	Z
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Below in the dark narrow spaces	L
The Islesman gropes down in the hold	K
Unnoticed and one among many	V
What harm can his hatred unfold	K
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Swarm the men to the rigging and swiftly	V
Shine clouds of white canvas and clank	A2
The links of the anchor's great cable	B2
Creaks trampled on deck every plank	A2
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Swings round the huge bowsprit and slowly	V
With motion majestic and free	V
The galleon vast gilded and mighty	V
Passes on passes forth to the sea	V
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Her colours still paint all the ripples	L
Repeated her banners all seem	U
Her sails and her gold and her cannon	A
Float on like a gorgeous dream	U
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Came a flash and a roar and a smoke cloud	K
Rushed up and spread far o'er the sky	E
Sank a wreck black and rugged and blasted	K
While the sound on the winds swept by	E
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And the mountains sent back the dull thunder	W
As though to all time they would tell	C2
The vengeance that pealed to the Heavens	L
From the Harbour of Mary's Well	C2

John Campbell

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