Explore "Captain Von Esson of the "Sebastopol"" by Henry Lawson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
("Let me fire one shot for Russia, though that shot should be the last. " / That line happened in a rhyme I wrote for the "Bulletin" before the fall / of Port Arthur. Strange to say, I was unaware of the incident of the / "Sebastopol" cruiser till I came across it the other day on a recent book / on the siege. -- H. L.)
OF HIS beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint, / But he comes to me as a little man, with a scrubby beard and a squint, / With a heart somewhere if it wasn't there, and an Irish terrier nose, / With a bark or a yelp for his friends and his crew, and a bull-dog grip for his foes.