'When the guns begin to roar,

An' England wants me, and me not there

To shatter 'er foes once more?'

"(You've heard what he said, maybe,

But I'll mark you the p'ints again;

For I want you to box your compass right

And get my story plain.)

"'You must take my drum,' he says,

'To the old sea-wall at home;

And if ever you strike that drum,' he says,

'Why, strike me blind, I'll come!

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"'If England needs me, dead

Or living, I'll rise that day!

I'll rise from the darkness under the sea

Ten thousand miles away.'

"That's what he said; and he died,

An' his pirates, listenin' roun',

With their crimson doublets and jewelled swords

That flashed as the sun went down,

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