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HEY made an Order in Council ('twas in eighteen sixty-four)

That gave me my proud position—the sign of a man-of-war,

And there isn't a tropic island or a bay where the anchors hold

But knows that I fly for Freedom and Honour worth more than gold.

Tens of thousands pay homage, as they raise me with loving hands

And free my soul in the morning to the drums of a hundred bands;

And thousands again salute me as the sun sinks down in the west,

For my Lords have decreed that the sun and I go down together to rest.

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