FIFES AND DRUMS
43
What! You yet think to forbid?
Sea-way for other Flags, too—
Way for the Red-White-and-Blue!
But it's down with your Black Flag—
Down, in the end, it must be,
In the depths where you lurk let it drag—
Down to the charnelled abyss . . .
You hearken the World's decree?—
Pirates were hunted ere this,
And you shall be swept from the sea!
Edith M. Thomas.
