Great Hector and Achilles face to face!
This is your Palos whence you turn your prow
To sail uncharted seas and find strange isles.
Here shall you stand with brave Leonidas;
Here watch old Davy Crockett fight and fall.
Amid these dusty shelves you'll see the glow
When Paul Jones lights his battle-lanterns here;
Muskets shall roar and tomahawks shall flash
In many deep and dismal forest glades.
Here shall you see the Guillotine at work!