HEAR YE, HEAR YE.
In this my sacred realm, where lively dolphins leap
And beauteous mermaids round and round me sweep,
In this fair sea where warm south trades
Do toss the gentle ocean 'bove the whirling blades,
Has come, I learn, a battleship first rate,
And at her peak the flag of nation great great—
Her name Vermont, with many turret guns,
Of twenty thousand horse-power and sixteen thousand tons.
And learning this, I Neptunus, and of Ocean King,