fleets did join,

But (k) lands unfix'd and floating nations strove.

LVIII

jiz'd, from Virgil: Creda innure revulsas Cycladas, &c.

Now pass'd, on either side they nimbly tack;

Both strive to intercept and guide the

wind:

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And, in its eye, more closely they come back,

To finish all the deaths they left behind.

LIX

On high-rais'd decks the haughty Belgians ride,

Beneath whose shade our humble frigates

go:

Such port the elephant bears, and so de

fied

By the rhinoceros her unequal foe.

LX

And as the built, so different is the fight;

Their mounting shot is on our sails design'd:

Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light And thro' the yielding planks a passage find.

LXI

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Our dreaded admiral from far they threat, Whose batter'd rigging their whole war receives:

All bare, like some old oak which tempests beat,

He stands, and sees below his scatter'd leaves.