"Let all that openly profess,
The ways of Christ our Lord,
Not spare to tell how much such things
Are by their souls abhor'd.
"Let every child of God now cry,
To the eternal one,
That George our sovereign lord and king
May ne'er be overcome.
"That all his Foes may lick the Dust,
And melt like Wax away,
That joy and peace and righteousness
May flourish in his day."
The proposed expedition, it is well known, never landed in England. The
combined fleet escaped an engagement, and the transports were wrecked and
scattered by a storm in the English Channel.