Each stately and splendid name
Foredoomed to thunder and flame,
Foredoomed to ruin and fame,
But the Admiral was not there!
He saw from afar his ships close in,
The smoke-veils thicken, the chase begin,
(And O for wings! sighed the Admiral’s heart,
As the flagship followed, apart.)
“Then it was, as we speeded west,
Just as the flagship came abreast