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Methinks, I see thy bravest of the bravePale on his blighted deck. Whom tends he there?
The woman-fiend who serves a devil-queen,
And that queen's husband. On the deep they stare!
For, lo, upright, starts from his watery grave
One, whose death-pangs two there have caused and seen!
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And all see death! two, death and infamy!
Tired Hell's Deputed Traitress! thy worst foe,
When execration writes thy vilest deed,
Could not in damning story wish to read
A sadder trilogy of words of woe
Than “Britain! Nelson! Carracciolo!”
And yet thou seem'st not vile as thou would'st be!
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