Admirals All, and other verses

by

Henry Newbolt


Contents:

Admirals All
Effingham, Greville, Raleigh, Drake,
Here's to the bold and free!
San Stefano
It was morning at St. Helen's, in the great and gallant days,
And the sea beneath the sun glittered wide,
Drake's Drum
Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand miles away,
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
The Fighting Téméraire
It was eight bells ringing,
For the morning watch was done,
Hawke
In seventeen hundred and fifty-nine,
When Hawke came swooping from the West,
Væ Victis
Beside the placid sea that mirrored her
           With the old glory of dawn that cannot die,
Vitaï Lampada
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- -
Ten to make and the match to win -- -
A Ballad of John Nicholson
It fell in the year of Mutiny,
At darkest of the night,
The Guides at Cabul, 1879
Sons of the Island race, wherever ye dwell,
Who speak of your fathers' battles with lips that burn,
The Gay Gordans
Who's for the Gathering, who's for the Fair?
(Gay goes the Gordon to a fight)
"He Fell Among Thieves"
"Ye have robb'd," said he, "ye have slaughter'd and made an end,
Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
Ionicus
With failing feet and shoulders bowed
Beneath the weight of happier days,
The Dictionary of National Biography
Sitting at times over a hearth that burns
With dull domestic glow,
Laudabunt Alii
Let others praise, as fancy wills,
Berlin beneath her trees,
The Vigil
England! where the sacred flame
Burns before the inmost shrine,