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We shall live to fight again and to strike another
blow. ' And the lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the
foe.
And the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore
him then, Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard
caught at last, And they praised him to his face with their courtly
foreign grace;
But he rose upon their decks, and he cried : 'I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant
man and true;
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do: With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die ! ' And he fell upon their decks and he died.
And they stared at the dead that had been so valiant
and true, And had holden the power and glory of Spain so
cheap That he dared her with one little ship and his
English few; Was he devil or man? He was devil for aught they
knew, But they sank his body with honour down into the
deep, And they manned the Revenge with a swarthier alien
crew, And away she sailed with her loss and longed for
her own;
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