<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets of the Empire: Hawk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way! <br>What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest <br>Rotted thy ruffian crews that need had prest, <br>And all thy keels were clogged with foul decay, <br>Yet through the roaring months thy squadron lay <br>A watch-dog eager at the throat of Brest <br>While all the ocean smote her from the West <br>And all the tempests tore her in their play. <br>Thy soul was of the whirlwind, and thy cry <br>Still leaps from out the crash of guns and waves <br>To hurl us headlong on the foeman’s van, <br>As in the Bay of Death, ’mid breakers high <br>And felon reefs whereo’er the Atlantic raves, <br>Thy flagship foremost into glory ran.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Thomas+Strong">Archibald Thomas Strong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348270" data-title="Sonnets of the Empire: Hawk de Archibald Thomas Strong" data-description="Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way! What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest Rotted thy ruffian crews that need had prest, And all thy keels were clogged with foul decay, Yet through the roaring months thy squadron lay A watch..."></div> </div> </div>

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