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(Battleship, launched March 24, 1898.)
I. Here's to her who bears the name / Of our State; / May the glory of her fame / Be as great! / In the battle's dread eclipse, / When she opens iron lips, / When our ships confront the ships / Of the foe, / May each word of steel she utters carry woe! / Here's to her!
II. Here's to her, who, like a knight / Mailed of old, / From far sea to sea the Right / Shall uphold. / May she always deal defeat, -- / When contending navies meet, / And the battle's screaming sleet / Blinds and stuns, -- / With the red, terrific thunder of her guns. / Here's to her!
III. Here's to her who bears the name / Of our State; / May the glory of her fame / Be as great! / Like a beacon, like a star, / May she lead our squadrons far, -- / When the hurricane of war / Shakes the world, -- / With her pennant in the vanward broad unfurled. / Here's to her!