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THE ARMADA.
As the hiss of a Python heaving in menace of doom to be
They hear through the clear night round them, whose
hours are as clouds that flee,
The whisper of tempest sleeping, the heave and the hiss
of the sea.
But faith is theirs, and with faith are they girded and
helmed and shod:
Invincible are they, almighty, elect for a sword and a
rod;
Invincible even as their God is omnipotent, infinite,
God.
In him is their strength, who have sworn that his glory
shall wax not dim:
In his name are their war-ships hallowed as mightiest of
all that swim:
The men that shall cope with these, and conquer, shall
cast out him.
