our scattered few,

We saw that night what so long we’d known,

that a Glo’ster fishing crew,

Rude and rough and grimed and gruff, had

calmly shown again

That on sea or sod they can meet their God in

the way that beseemeth men!

Then over her sullen bulwarks, as she stamped

and chafed and rolled,

From the night and wreck to her dazzling deck