And half of the rest of us inaimed for life In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife;

And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold; And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it spent ; 80 And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side.

But Sir Richard cried in his English pride:

"We have fought such a fight for a day and a night

As may never be fought again!
We have won great glory, my men!
And a day less or more

At sea or ashore,

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We die - does it matter when? Sink me the ship, Master Gunner — sink her, split her in twain!

Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!"

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And the gunner said, "Ay, ay;" but the seamen made reply:

"We have children, we have wives, And the Lord hath spared our lives. We will make the Spaniard promise, if we yield, to let us go:

it suddenly dead,

And himself he was wounded again in the side and the head,

And he said, "Fight on! fight on!"