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Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming:  `Ho, Admiral! o'er-defalking to thy crew  Against thyself, thyself far overfew To front yon multitudes of rebel scheming?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming; 'Ho, Admiral! o'er-defalking to thine crew Against thyself, thyself far overfew To front yon multitudes of rebel scheming?'

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)