The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-31

1t was our warship Clampherdown
Would sweep the Channel clean,
Wherefore she kept her matches close
When the merry Channel chops arose,
To save the bleached marine.
She had ore bow-gun of a hundred ton,
And a great stern gun beside:
They dipped their noses deep in the sea
They racked their stays and stanchions free
In the wash OF the wind-wnipped tide.
1t was our warship Clsmpherdown
Fell in with a cruiser light
That carried the dainty Hotchkiss gun
And pair o heels wherewith 70 run
From the grip OF u close fought fight
She opened fire at seven miles
AS We shoot at boobing cork
Ana once she fired and twice she fired,
Till the bowguu dropped like lily tired,
That lolls upon the stalk.
Captain the bow-gGn melts apace,
The decS beams break below,
'Twere well to rest for an hour or twain,
And boteh the shattered plates again."
And he answered, MAKE il So"
She opened fire within the mile
AS We shoot al the flying duck
AId the great sterl,gun shot iair and true,
With the heave OF the ship. 10 the stainless blue,
And the great stern turres stuck.
'.Captsin, the turret fills with steam,
The feed-pipes burst below
You can hear the hiss OF the helpless ram,
You can hear the twisted runners JAM
And he answered, Turn and go!'
1t was our warship Clamphesdown,
And grimiy did he roll
! swung round 10 take the cruisers fire
AS the Nhlte Whale faces the Threshers ire
When they war Il. the frozen Pole.
captain. the shells are falling fast,
Aud faster still fall we:
And IL IS not meet for English stock
To 5lde in the heart OF en- eight-day clock
The death they cannot see
"Lie down. lie down, my bold B.
We drift upon her beam:
We dare not ram Tor she can run,
And dare We fire another gun
And die IL the peeling steam?"
It was our warship Clampherdown
That carried al armor-belt;
But fifty ieet al stern and bow
Lay bare as the paunch OF the purser's SOW,
To the hail OF the Nordenfeit.
captain. they hack Us through and through:
The chilled steel bolts are swift!
We have emptied the bunEe-s in open sea,
Their shrapnel bursts where our coal should
be-,
And he answered, LET her drift"
Ii was our warship Clampherdown
swung round upon the tide,
Her two dumb guns giared south and north.
And the blood and buhbling steam ran forth
And she ground the cruisers side.
"Captain," they cry, "the fight is done;
They bid you send your sword"
Ana he answered, "Grapple her stern and bow
They have asked for the steel. They shall have
IL now;
Out cutlasses and boar3n'
1t was OF! waTship Clampherdown
4Spewet up four hundred men:
And the scalded stokers yelpei delight
As they rolled in the waist and heard the hrht
stamp DER their steel walled pen.
They cleared the cruiser from end to end,
From coming tower to hold
They fought rs they fought in Nelson's fleet.
1aey We're stripped 10 tie waist, they were bare
to the feet,
As II was III the days OF old.
II was the sinking Clam pherdowu
Heayed mp her battered side
And carried Il million pounds in steel,
10 the cod aud to cOrpse-fed c0nger eel
And the scoUT OF the Channel tide.
Il wss the crew OF the Clampherdowu
ciooo oiIt - sweep The sea,
On a cruiser wen trOIn al ancient foe
AS X was "a the Gays OF long ago,
And IS Il stl.l snail be.
-Rudya-i K.plins