<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537786" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Loss Of The Royal George</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written when the news arrived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Toll for the brave!<br>The brave that are no more!<br>All sunk beneath the wave<br>Fast by their native shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eight hundred of the brave,<br>Whose courage well was tried,<br>Had made the vessel heel,<br>And laid her on her side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A land-breeze shook the shrouds,<br>And she was overset;<br>Down went the Royal George,<br>With all her crew complete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Toll for the brave!<br>Brave Kempenfelt is gone;<br>His last sea-fight is fought,<br>His work of glory done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not in the battle,<br>No tempest gave the shock,<br>She sprang no fatal leak,<br>She ran upon no rock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His sword was in its sheath,<br>His fingers held the pen,<br>When Kempenfelt went down<br>With twice four hundred men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weigh the vessel up,<br>Once dreaded by our foes;<br>And mingle with our cup<br>The tears that England owes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her timbers yet are sound,<br>And she may float again<br>Full charged with England's thunder,<br>And plough the distant main.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Kempenfelt is gone,<br>His victories are o'er;<br>And he and his eight hundred<br>Shall plough the wave no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537786" data-title="On The Loss Of The Royal George de William Cowper" data-description="Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore. Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A..."></div> </div> </div>

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