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'Twas a pleasant Sunday morning while the spring was in its / glory, / English spring of gentle glory; smoking by his cottage door, / Florid-faced, the man-o'-war's-man told his white-head boy the / story, / Noble story of Aboukir told a hundred times before.
"Here, the _Theseus_ -- here, the _Vanguard_; " as he spoke each name / sonorous, -- / _Minotaur_, _Defence_, _Majestic_, stanch old comrades of the brine, / That against the ships of Brueys made their broadsides roar in / chorus, -- / Ranging daisies on his doorstone, deft he mapped the battle-line.