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Lie down, and let the billows hide your shame, / Oh, shorn and naked outcast of the seas! / You who confided to each ocean breeze / Your coming conquests, and made loud acclaim / Of your own grandeur and exalted fame; / You who have catered to they world's disease; / You who have drunk hate's wine, and found the lees; / Lie down! and let all men forget your name!
You dreamed of world dominion! you! the spawn / Of hell and hatred-Foe to all things free- / Sworn enemy to honour, truth and right; / Too poor a thing now for the Devil's pawn, / Let the large mercy of the outraged sea / Engulf and hide you evermore from sight.