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large/7841/battle-pieces_aspects_war_1501_librivox_64kb_mp3/battle-pieces_14_melville_64kb
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Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble; For since grimed War here laid aside His Orient pomp, 'twould ill befit Overmuch to ply The Rhyme's barbaric cymbal. PLAIN BE THE PHRASE YET APT THE VERSE MORE PONDEROUS THAN NIMBLE FOR SINCE GRIMED WAR HERE LAID ASIDE HIS ORIENT POMP TWOULD ILL BEFIT OVERMUCH TO PLY THE RHYME'S BARBARIC SYMBOL
The rear ones of our fleet They yearned to share your place, Still vying with the Victory Throughout that earnest race-- The Victory, whose Admiral, With orders nobly won, Shone in the globe of the battle glow-- The angel in that sun. Parallel in story, Lo, the stately pair, As late in grapple ranging, The foe between them there-- When four great hulls lay tiered, And the fiery tempest cleared, And your prizes twain appeared, Temeraire! But Trafalgar’ is over now, The quarter-deck undone; The carved and castled navies fire Their evening-gun. O, Tital Temeraire, Your stern-lights fade away; Your bulwarks to the years must yield, And heart-of-oak decay. A pigmy steam-tug tows you, Gigantic, to the shore-- Dismantled of your guns and spars, And sweeping wings of war. The rivets clinch the iron-clads, Men learn a deadlier lore; But Fame has nailed your battle-flags-- Your ghost it sails before: O, the navies old and oaken, O, the Temeraire no more! A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.  A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT BY HERMAN MELVILLE READ FOR LIEBRAVOCK STOT ORG BY SAWSHA KOHEN AT CLARK UNIVERSITY RECORDED OCTOBER OF TWO THOUSAND TWELVE WORD PRESS DOT CLARK U DOT E D U SLASH M E N E U M A N SLASH LIEBRAVOX
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