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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer
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But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,
Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame;
Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and
her shame.
For some were sunk and many were shatter’d, and so could fight us
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God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
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For he said “Fight on! fight on!”