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THE ARMADA.

Yea, so shall thy kingdom be stablished, and so shall the
signs of it be:
And the world shall know, and the wind shall speak, and
the sun shall see,
That these are the works of thy servants, whose works
bear witness to thee.

ii.

But the dusk of the day falls fruitless, whose light should

have lit them on:
Sails flash through the gloom to shoreward, eclipsed as
the sun that shone:
And the west wind wakes with dawn, and the hope that
was here is gone.

Around they wheel and around, two knots to the Spaniard's
one,
The wind-swift warriors of England, who shoot as with
shafts of the sun,
With fourfold shots for the Spaniard's, that spare not till
day be done.