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Title: A Merchant Fleet at War

Author: Archibald Hurd

Release date: July 4, 2021 [eBook #65761]
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Language: English

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A MERCHANT
FLEET AT WAR

“Aquitania” leading the Transports

By
ARCHIBALD HURD

Author of “The British Fleet in the
Great War,” “Command of the Sea,”
“Sea-Power,” etc. etc.

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1920

Over the warring waters, beneath the wandering skies,

The heart of Britain roameth, the Chivalry of the sea,

Where Spring never bringeth a flower, nor bird singeth in a tree,

Far, afar, O beloved, beyond the sight of our eyes,

Over the warring waters, beneath the stormy skies.

Robert Bridges.