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 238 TENNYSON

We shall live to fight again and to strike another

blow. ' And the lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the

foe.

And the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore

him then, Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard

caught at last, And they praised him to his face with their courtly

foreign grace;

But he rose upon their decks, and he cried : 'I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant

man and true;

I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do: With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die ! ' And he fell upon their decks and he died.

And they stared at the dead that had been so valiant

and true, And had holden the power and glory of Spain so

cheap That he dared her with one little ship and his

English few; Was he devil or man? He was devil for aught they

knew, But they sank his body with honour down into the

deep, And they manned the Revenge with a swarthier alien

crew, And away she sailed with her loss and longed for

her own;

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