Not a sail is unfurled in a part of the world
But is prey for the wolves of the Sea!
—Copyright by Harr Wagner Co., San Francisco, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
OLD IRONSIDES
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,