In the dark, John McGahren
Night star spangled, unfurling banner
Steer us through, ample captain, Nelson
Legacy, Jak and Daxter
Tax it, wet it with sweat, or I’ll lash you bastards!
Mush mush the drummond struck did push
We averted myriad disasters
Thanking any bloody God after
Cannon melody, captain’s vanity
Naval tragedy, Salamis or Actium
C’mon m’lady, to the rafts
Rattle, splintering, death singing seeking fore and aft
Maladies myriad, mangled young lads, ephebes of the Iliad
Are they glad now of zest ardent, how they miss Ireland
Which Odysseus called Ogygia in his scribed exile.
Alchemisland 
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