And fire and blood below;
The heat of hell, and the reek of hell,
And the dead men laid a-row!
And when the stars paled out of heaven
And the red dawn-rays uprushed,
The oaths of battle, the crash of timbers,
The roar of the guns were hushed.
With one foe beaten under his bow,
The other afar in flight,
The English captain turned to look