'Ull sweep Trafalgar's Bay.'

"D'you guess who Nelson was?

You may laugh, but it's true as true!

There was more in that pore little chawed-up chap

Than ever his best friend knew.

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"The foe was creepin' close,

In the dark, to our white-cliffed isle;

They were ready to leap at England's throat,

When—O, you may smile, you may smile;

"But—ask of the Devonshire men;

For they heard in the dead of night

The roll of a drum, and they saw him pass

On a ship all shining white.

"He stretched out his dead cold face

And he sailed in the grand old way!

The fishes had taken an eye and his arm,

But he swept Trafalgar's Bay.

"Nelson—was Francis Drake!

O, what matters the uniform,

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