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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472375" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">JULY 6, 1865</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,<br>Since half our battle 's won,<br>A broadside for our Admiral!<br>Load every crystal gun<br>Stand ready till I give the word,--<br>You won't have time to tire,--<br>And when that glorious name is heard,<br>Then hip! hurrah! and fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bow foremost sinks the rebel craft,--<br>Our eyes not sadly turn<br>And see the pirates huddling aft<br>To drop their raft astern;<br>Soon o'er the sea-worm's destined prey<br>The lifted wave shall close,--<br>So perish from the face of day<br>All Freedom's banded foes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! what splendors fire the sky<br>What glories greet the morn!<br>The storm-tost banner streams on high,<br>Its heavenly hues new-born!<br>Its red fresh dyed in heroes' blood,<br>Its peaceful white more pure,<br>To float unstained o'er field and flood<br>While earth and seas endure!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All shapes before the driving blast<br>Must glide from mortal view;<br>Black roll the billows of the past<br>Behind the present's blue,<br>Fast, fast, are lessening in the light<br>The names of high renown,--<br>Van Tromp's proud besom fades from sight,<br>And Nelson's half hull down!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea<br>Or skirts the safer shores<br>Of all that bore to victory<br>Our stout old commodores;<br>Hull, Bainbridge, Porter,--where are they?<br>The waves their answer roll,<br>'Still bright in memory's sunset ray,--<br>God rest each gallant soul!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A brighter name must dim their light<br>With more than noontide ray,<br>The Sea-King of the 'River Fight,'<br>The Conqueror of the Bay,--<br>Now then the broadside! cheer on cheer<br>To greet him safe on shore!<br>Health, peace, and many a bloodless year<br>To fight his battles o'er!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,
Since half our battle 's won,
A broadside for our Admiral!
Load every crystal gun
Stand ready till I give the word,--
You won't have time to tire,--
And when that glorious name is heard,
Then h..."></div>
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