I can't resist this! One of [[Charles Villiers Stanford]]'s "Songs of the Fleet" (or "songs of the Sea" - I can't remember) from a poem by Sir Henry Newbolt, it's Brit triumphalism at its most glorious, and as the ship and its captain are mentioned in the article, I am putting it here for a day or two whilst thinking of tacking it onto the end of the Trafalgar article as a sort of "human interest" thing. (And any budding baritones could do worse than get the music and have a go.
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I can't resist this! One of [[Charles Villiers Stanford]]'s "Songs of the Fleet" (or "songs of the Sea" - I can't remember) from a poem by Sir Henry Newbolt, it's Brit triumphalism at its most glorious, and as the ship and its captain are mentioned in the article, I am putting it here for a day or two whilst thinking of tacking it onto the end of the Trafalgar article as a sort of "human interest" thing. (And any budding baritones could do worse than get the music and have a go.)
:The wind was rising easterly, the morning sky was blue,
:The wind was rising easterly, the morning sky was blue,