| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. b. 1840 |
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| 821. Gibraltar |
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| SEVEN weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm | |
| Upon the huge Atlantic, and once more | |
| We ride into still water and the calm | |
| Of a sweet evening, screen'd by either shore | |
| Of Spain and Barbary. Our toils are o'er, | 5 |
| Our exile is accomplish'd. Once again | |
| We look on Europe, mistress as of yore | |
| Of the fair earth and of the hearts of men. | |
| Ay, this is the famed rock which Hercules | |
| And Goth and Moor bequeath'd us. At this door | 10 |
| England stands sentry. God! to hear the shrill | |
| Sweet treble of her fifes upon the breeze, | |
| And at the summons of the rock gun's roar | |
| To see her red coats marching from the hill! | |
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