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310 'I froze him stiff and I fogged him blind,

And kicked him home with his road to find

By what he could see of a three-day snow-storm.

(All round the Sands!)

'I learned him his trade o' winter nights,

'Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights

On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing.

(All round the Sands!)

'Before his beard began to shoot,

I showed him the length of the Spaniard's foot—

And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later.

(All round the Sands!)

'If there's a risk which you can make,

That's worse than he was used to take

Nigh every week in the way of his business;

(All round the Sands!)

'If there's a trick that you can try,

Which he hasn't met in time gone by,

Not once or twice, but ten times over;

(All round the Sands!)

'If you can teach him aught that's new,

(A-hay O! To me O!)

I'll give you Bruges and Niewport too,

And the ten tall churches that stand between 'em.'

Storm along my gallant Captains!

(All round the Horn!)