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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Vindictive</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How should we praise those lads of the old <br>Vindictive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who looked Death straight in the eyes,<br>Till his gaze fell,<br>In those red gates of hell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">England, in her proud history, proudly enrolls them,<br>And the deep night in her remembering skies<br>With purer glory<br>Shall blazon their grim story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were no throngs to applaud that hushed adventure.<br>They were one to a thousand on that fierce emprise.<br>The shores they sought<br>Were armoured, past all thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, they knew fear, be assured, as the brave must know it,<br>With youth and its happiness bidding their last good-byes;<br>Till thoughts, more dear<br>Than life, cast out all fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if, as we think, they remembered the brown-roofed homesteads,<br>And the scent of the hawthorn hedges when daylight dies,<br>Old happy places,<br>Young eyes and fading faces;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One dream was dearer that night than the best of their boyhood,<br>One hope more radiant than any their hearts could prize.<br>The touch of your hand,<br>The light of your face, England!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, age to age shall tell how they sailed through the darkness<br>Where, under those high, austere, implacable stars,<br>Not one in ten<br>Might look for a dawn again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They saw the ferry-boats, <br>Iris<br>and <br>Daffodil<br>, creeping<br>Darkly as clouds to the shimmering mine-strewn bars,<br>Flash into light!<br>Then thunder reddened the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wild white swords of the search-lights blinded and stabbed them,<br>The sharp black shadows fought in fantastic wars.<br>Black waves leapt whitening,<br>Red decks were washed with lightning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, under the twelve-inch guns of the black land-batteries<br>The hacked bright hulk, in a glory of crackling spars,<br>Moved to her goal<br>Like an immortal soul;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That, while the raw rent flesh in a furnace is tortured,<br>Reigns by a law no agony ever can shake,<br>And shines in power<br>Above all shocks of the hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, there, while the decks ran blood, and the star-shells lightened<br>The old broken ship that the enemy never could break,<br>Swept through the fire<br>And grappled her heart's desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, on a wreck that blazed with the soul of England,<br>The lads that died in the dark for England's sake<br>Knew, as they died,<br>Nelson was at their side;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nelson, and all the ghostly fleets of his island,<br>Fighting beside them there, and the soul of Drake!-<br>Dreams, as we knew,<br>Till these lads made them true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_How should we praise you, lads of the old Vindictive,<br>Who looked death straight in the eyes,<br>Till his gaze fell<br>In those red gates of hell?_</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q>
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Vindictive

Who looked Death straight in the eyes,
Till his gaze fell,
In those red gates of hell?

England, in her proud history, proudly enrolls them,
And the deep night in her remembering skies
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