The Thames awaits, and now exults elate

To hail with shouts the conqueror’s return!

But only pale and cold beholds her Chief!

Great lesson left for human pride to learn,

And worthy holocaust for Spanish grief.

Yet still the rage of Mars impels the arm

Of destiny; mow’d down unnumber’d lives.

By fury launch’d, voracious flames alarm;

On every side planks burning. Loosely drives

Each ship a fierce volcano; blazing high