To venture on bold designs;
Remember ye come of the stock that made
The North Sea stiff with mines.
"So clear the decks for a scrap, my braves,
Since fight ye must and shall,
Like sons of the men who rule the waves,
The waves of the Kiel Canal."
So all that day they fought and drank
Of the battle's fierce delight,
And blazed and blazed away till they sank