War-ships In Port Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFAAGGH IIJJKLMM NNOOPPQQ| The tread of arm d mariners is in our streets to day | A |
| An Empire's pulse is beating in the march of this array | A |
| From western woods and Celtic hills and homely Saxon shires | B |
| They sailed beneath the meteor flag the emblem of our sires | B |
| And for the glory that has been the pride that yet may be | C |
| We hail them in the sacred names of home and liberty | C |
| And know that not on sea or land more dauntless hearts there are | D |
| Than the hearts of these bold seamen from the English men of war | E |
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| Trafalgar's fame crowned hero stands encarved in storied stone | F |
| And from his place of honor looks in silence and alone | F |
| But no to day his spirit lives and walks the crowded way | A |
| For us Drake Hawkins Frobisher and Howard live to day | A |
| For us from many a page of eld 'mid war and tempest blast | G |
| A thousand thousand valiant forms come trooping from the past | G |
| And say Forget not us to day we have a part with these | H |
| The 'sea dogs' of old England the 'Mistress of the Seas ' | - |
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| No no ye gruff old heroes ye can never be forgot | I |
| The memory of your prowess will outlive the storm the shot | I |
| Destruction pours impartially on common and sublime | J |
| And scorn the volleying years that mount the battery of time | J |
| For far above this tide of war your worth is written clear | K |
| On fame's bright rock of adamant imperishable here | L |
| Your names may be recorded not your graves be 'neath the keel | M |
| But many a million English hearts some love for you shall feel | M |
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| Five grim old ocean buffeters stern ploughshares of the deep | N |
| Have come to visit us of those whose duty 'tis to keep | N |
| With the old lion's courage and the young eagle's ken | O |
| Their sleepless watch upon the sea that skirts this world of men | O |
| And if again in stately pride their lordly forms they bear | P |
| Upon the ample bosom of our noble stream whene'er | P |
| From massive prow impregnable their peaceful anchor falls | Q |
| We'll hail old England's hearts of steel who man her iron walls | Q |
W. M. Mackeracher
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