Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-18


No enemy's flotilla
Would dare 10 enter here"
So thought the proud Castllian,
As the night changed into day,
And over bay and city,
Walked the first dawn Of the May.
Ay de mi!-like shadows falling,
Creeping unawares and slow,
Came a fleet while night was palling
All the land and sea below;
And i'm harbor of Manila.
A few short weeks ago,
Rode a new and strange fiotilla,
A few short weeks ago
There il rode-the throbbing waters
OF the harbor rose and fell
How it came there-came so slowly
Quien sabe? Who can tell
How 1t ventured past the dangers
At the inlets gaping mouth;
How il 'scaped the mines, and thunders
OF the castle of the south;
How IL ventured thus to brave,
The batteries long the shore
The fleet, the dread Cavite,
And the stern CorregidorY
"Qulen sabe" cried the Spaniard,
"Can the vision real be?
Does indeed, the Yankees squadron,
Ride our fair Manillan scar
Phantom ships they seemed, descended,
From the skies al midnight hour,
Waited thither by some demon
OF weird and wondrous power.
From the heights Of bold Cavite
Hank! the lannon's sullen boom,
Signal Of the opening conflict,
Herald of the coming doom
OF the reckless Yankee squadron,
or the bold Castillian fleet
OF which shall the harbor's waters
Furnish the winding sheet?
Now the thunders of Manila
Awake along the shore;
And out from SPANS fotilla,
The hurting missiles pour;
Theirs to check the daring squadron
That comes careering on,
And defend the richest Jewel
In old Hispania's crown
Their admiral. Montejo,
or courage famed was he,
And of many names together,
Joined each TO each by "
From the famous town SeVilla,
Where sweeps its course along,
Silent, dreamy GuadalquiVer'
Famed i'm many a song
Silver cleaning mid the PLAIN,
YelIoW with the golden graln;\
Gliding through the deep, rich meadows
Where the stated cattle rove:
Stealing underneath the SHADOWS
OF the verdant olive grove;
with its plentitude of waters,
Ever flowing, calm and slow
oved nv Andalusias daughters,
Sung by poets long ago.
Thence this Admiral Montejo,
Don Camille Herman Pedro
Y Castillo Romero
Y Santana Y Robero
Y de PantOs Rivera
Y de QuinteZy Duero
Y Sanguilly COrdova
Witt the rest I'll tell de novo.
vvbon have the breath and time
To repeat them all In rhyme
He from the winding river,
From the murmuring Guaoaiqui'eI'
And the city OF SeVliia' - oo,ulo
ctraightway urged his proud hotiila'
Forth TO battle In the new way,
with the feet of plain plain e Ge ORG De"eS'
Then said Dewey, PARA haud'
10 palabras, la espada,
If you're up for duello, .oro,.
Xo,,u find me just your fellow. ,
Come George Dewey is your man.
ON the fair bay of Manila
shin to ship in STRIFE, a..,uo
t7n,,ebt there each strong hotiila
A fight Of death or lie.
non Nonteio hurled his thunders'
Full in the Yankees breast, ,,ro
who in turn appeared storm-kins
I,,.b the lightning for his crest;
Growing s-oid and growing bolder'
Re close and closer prest, M
soon the Spaniard's proud notiiia
In wreck and ruin lay,
n
PIasted hulks beneath the bay.
nan nfonteio's pride and glory
DS ~ In The wreck had gone;
Gone down la lsla Cupa'
Down la Isla de I>uzon'
Don Juan de Austria,
Ia Castillo. Eel Caho'
T-e Isla Mindanao'
Del Duero. Nelasco'
Donatino de Ulioa'
El General Leo
Ia Reipa Christine
All In wreck and ruin lay,
r,ias.ea hulks upon the wafer,
sunken hulks beneath the pay
r, tho harbor Of Manila.
III xubsre few short weeks age,
Doda he Spaniard's PROUD notiII"'
Where the Pasig's waters now
49, the new and strange notiiia'
sits triumphant on the wave,
- tho bright Columbian banner
1tSIoats above the watery grave
where the hopes OF Spain ne o"rieu'
Ana the name OF Dewey poio'
"a every cline and nation
Nv applauding tongues Is toio'
with Perry and Decatur;
Win Hull and Farragut, o,ca
with Paul Jones, and with -"
p,.ce the name OF Dewey, 100
srha Grand and noble fellow,
xSrbo won the fierce duello,
Ard destroyed the proud hotiiia,
on our cOuDtry's. zoe,
Tn the harbor Of Manila.
A few short weeks ago