Britannia rules the waves.
DROTT
DLEU
ETMUN
H.M.S. DEVASTATION.
9,330 TONS.
GOD GIVE US VICTORY!
We've shut the gates by Dover Straits,
And North, where the tides run free,
Cheek by jowl, our watchdogs prowl,
Grey hulks in a greyer sea.
And the prayer that England prays to-night-
O Lord of our destiny !-
As the foam of our plunging prows, is white
We have stood for peace, and we war for right.
God give us victory!
JAMES BERNARD FAGAN.
BY PERMISSION OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH "
Rapheel Tuck & Sons, Empire Postcard" No 244
