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O pride of the days in prime of the months / Now trebled in great renown, / When before the ark of our holy cause / Fell Dagon down -- / Dagon foredoomed, who, armed and targed, / Never his impious heart enlarged / Beyond that hour; god walled his power, / And there the last invader charged.
He charged, and in that charge condensed / His all of hate and all of fire; / He sought to blast us in his scorn, / And wither us in his ire. / Before him went the shriek of shells -- / Aerial screamings, taunts and yells; / Then the three waves in flashed advance / Surged, but were met, and back they set: / Pride was repelled by sterner pride, / And Right is a strong-hold yet.