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PRAYER AT SEA AFTER VICTORY.




The land shall never rue,
So England to herself do prove but true.
Shakspeare.




Through evening's bright repose
A voice of prayer arose,
        When the sea-fight was done:
The sons of England knelt,
With hearts that now could melt,

For on the wave her battle had been won.