When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King PHILIP'S pride,
He had great ships at his bidding and little ones beside;
Revenge was there, and Lion, and others known to fame,
And likewise he had small craft, which hadn't any name.
Small craft—small craft, to harry and to flout 'em!
Small craft—small craft, you cannot do without 'em!
Their deeds are unrecorded, their names are never seen,
But we know that there were small craft, because there must have been.
When NELSON was blockading for three long years and more,
With many a bluff first-rater and oaken seventy-four,