248 BROWNING
xcvin HOME THOUGHTS FROM THE SEA
NOBLY, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the North-west died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;
In the dimmest North-east distance dawned Gibral- tar grand and grey;
'Here and here did England help me: how can I help England ? ' say,
Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray,
While Jove's planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.
xcix HERVE RIEL
ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred
ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, woe to
France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro' the
blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of
sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the
Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
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