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THE ARMADA.
Hell's own flame at his heavenly name leaps higher and
laughs, and its gulfs rejoice:
Plague and death from his baneful breath take life and
lighten, and praise his choice:
Chosen are they to devour for prey the tribes that hear not
and fear his voice.
Ay, but we that the wind and sea gird round with shelter
of storms and waves
Know not him that ye worship, grim as dreams that
quicken from dead men's graves:
God is one with the sea, the sun, the land that nursed us,
the love that saves.
Love whose heart is in ours, and part of all things noble
and all things fair;
Sweet and free as the circling sea, sublime and kind as
the fostering air;
Pure of shame as is England's name, whose crowns to
come are as crowns that were.
