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_The strength of twice three thousand horse / That seek the single goal; / The line that holds the rending course, / The hate that swings the whole: / The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, / At gaze and gone again -- / The Brides of Death that wait the groom -- / The Choosers of the Slain! _
Offshore where sea and skyline blend / In rain, the daylight dies; / The sullen, shouldering swells attend / Night and our sacrifice. / Adown the stricken capes no flare -- / No mark on spit or bar, -- / Girdled and desperate we dare / The blindfold game of war.