CHAPTER VI.
The Battle of Trafalgar, and extracts from the log of His Majesty’s Ship Neptune, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd October, 1805.
FEELINGS OF A CREW GOING INTO ACTION. BY LIEUT. H. GASCOIGNE, R.M.
Extracted from a Poem called “Fame.”
“The man who pants not for his country’s fame
Is lost to virtue and the sense of shame;
For here the common parent of us all,
Bears every claim of those whom dear we call—
Our father, mother, brother, sister, wife,
Religion, friendship—all that’s good in life,