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But the might of England flushed

To anticipate the scene;

And her van the fleeter rushed

O’er the deadly space between.

“Hearts of oak!” our captains cried; when each gun

From its adamantine lips

Spread a death-shade round the ships,

Like the hurricane eclipse

Of the sun.