Whose lot is cast in iron “mould,”
Vast terror now in fashion old—
Hurrah for the armoured cruiser!
Aggressive zeal has launched too far
These huge leviathans of war,
For smaller craft more deadly are—
The restless armoured cruiser!
The lither foe, says E. J. Reed,
Would prove, with its terrific speed,
To foes an awful foe indeed—