THE POET’S CORNER.
RODNEY: OFF DOMINICA, APRIL XII., MDCQLXXXII.
In Erin’s Isle revolt was in the air; The French and Spaniard [swept the British seas; Her Government, corrupt, helpless, dismayed, Sought for the hireling soldier’s foreign aid; And to the Briton seemed in his despair His Country sickening in her last disease; When Rodney in that pwful strait of time Did hazard her last fleet on Fortune’s die. In matchless daring, all his own, sublime, Fought all day long beneath a tropic sky In that great battle on that Indian Sea, And saved his Country from the jaws of fate, And made himself a name supremely great, A record for all times that are to be. —A.T.T. “The most obstinately contested battle ever fought between the two Nations. It lasted nearly 13 hours.’’ Chambers Encyclop. :“Vol YIII.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9119, 11 April 1908, Page 6
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137THE POET’S CORNER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9119, 11 April 1908, Page 6
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