The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-20
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rrL o+ saa6ght off Flores, 800 years age
when Sir Richard Grenvile, WIN single ship and
= 5isahIad crow fought for many hours the whole
Snonisb feat described by Bacon as memorable
,ran bevond credit, and to the height of some he
;nal fable.u described by Sir Walter Raleigh ;
CELEBRATED in song and story of times almost
sorgotten spoken of in kiugsey's Westward
Hoip and cherished among tie most precious ira
ditions of the English navy this great fight is the
subject of Tenpyson's contribution to the Nine
tenth Century, for March:
BY ALFRED TENNYsoN.
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Granville Law.
And pinnacle, like futterd bird came flying
.spanish ships of war at sea. we have sighted
hfty-threep
Then sware Lord Thomas Howard st'Fore God
coward,
But cannot meet them here, for my ships are out
of gear,
And the half of my men are sick / must fy. but
follow quick
We are six ships of the line; can we fight with
Then spake Sir Richard Granville: az know you
no coward;
You fly them for a moment to fight with them
again.
Bat I've ninety men ard more that are lying sick
ashore
should count myself the coward if 1 left them,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of
Spain"
lord Howard passes away, and Sir Richard
Grenvile is left with his own ship containing
ninety sick men and hundred seamen fit to work
the ship and to tight. Ihey encounter the Spanish
fleet, oL.e lsty-three. !
And the sun went down and the stars came out far
over the summer sea,
But never moment ceased the fi9ht OF the one and
the fty-three.
Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high
Ship after Ship, the whole night long, with her
battle-thunder and flame;
Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back
with her dead and her shame.
For some were sunk and many were SHATTERED, and
could fight more
God of battles, ever battle like this in the
Id before?
For he said, Fight on fight on,''
Tho mis- vessel was all but wreck;
And it CHANGED that, when half of the summer
night was gone,
With grsly wound to be drest he had lett the
deck,
But a bullet struck him that was dressing il sud-
denly dead,
And himself he was wounded again in the side and
The head,
And he said, 9 Fight on! fight on.n
And the night went down, and the sun smiled out
far over the summer sea,
And the Spanish fleet with broken sides lay round
all in ring
But they dared not touch again, for they fear'd
chat still could sting.
So they watchd what the end would be-
THE e,l was not doubtful, and Sir Richard Gren-
vile had his way OF encountering it,
:" Sink me the ship, Master Gunner-sink her, split
her in twain
Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of
Spain!"
But the crew were of less heroic mood for % the
lion there lay dying and they yielded to ths foe. y
And the stately Spanish to their flag ship bore
him then,
Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard
caught at last
And they praised him his face with their courtly
foreign grace;
But he rose upon their decks, and he cried:
: have fought for queen and faith like valiant
and true:
| have only done my duty as man is bound to do;
With joyful spirit l, Sir Richard Grenville, de?"
Aud he fell upon their decks, and he died.
And they stared at the dead that had been so val
liant and true,
And had holden the pawer and glory of Spain so
cheap
That he dared her with one little ship and his Eng
sh few;
Was lie devil man? He was devil for ought they
knew,
But they sank his body with honor down into the
deep
And they manned the Revenge with swarthier
alien crew,
And away she sai'd with her loss, and long'd for
her own;
When wind from the lands they had ruin'd,
awoke from sleep,
And the water began TO heave and the weather to
And like the that is raised by an
earthquake grew,
Till il sote on their hulls and their sails and their
masts and their flags,
And the whole sea plunged and fell OR the shot
shattered navy OF Spain,
And the little a. Revenge herself went down by
the island crags
To be lost ever more the main.