V.

The wind has roared in English many a time,

And foes have heard it on the frothy main,

In doom and danger and in battle-pain;

And yet again may hear,

In many a sea-ward, sun-enamoured clime;

For all the hearts of traitors ache with fear

When our great ships go forth, as heretofore,

Full-armed from the shore,--

And Boreas bounds exultant on the seas,

To bid the waves of these,--

The subject-waves of England and the Isles,--

Out-leap for miles and miles,

As loud as lions loosed on enemies!

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