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THE SONG OF THE SOU' WESTER
The lesson was all of a ship and a shot,And some of it may have been true,But the word they heard and never forgotWas the word of the wind that blew:
Oh! I am the enemy most of might,The other be who you please!Gunner and guns may all be right,Flags a-flying and armour tight,But I am the fellow you've first to fight—The giant that swings the seas.
The Middy with luck is a Captain soon,With luck he may hear one dayHis own big guns a-humming the tune"'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay."But wherever he goes, with friends or foes,And whatever may there befall,He'll hear for ever a voice he knowsFor ever defying them all:
Oh! I am the enemy most of might,The other be who you please!Gunner and guns may all be right,Flags a-flying and armour tight,But I am the fellow you've first to fight—The giant that swings the seas.
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