StoryTitle("caps", "The Captain Stood on the Carronade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(61, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Captain stood on the carronade—\"First lieutenant,\" says he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Send all my merry men aft here, for they must list to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ship there is a Frenchman, who means to fight with me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds blood, hammer and tongs, long as I've been to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds—but I've gained the victory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ship there is a Frenchman, and if we don't take she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is a thousand bullets to one, that she will capture we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, my boys, so each man to his gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she's not mine in half an hour, I'll flog each mother's son.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, long as I 've been to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds, and I've gained the victory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We fought for twenty minutes when the Frenchmen had enough.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I little thought,\" said he, \"that your men were of such stuff.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(62, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Captain took the Frenchman's sword, a low bow made to he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, Monsieur, but polite I wish to be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, long as I've been to sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds, and I've gained the victory.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our Captain sent for all of us, \"My merry men,\" said he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I haven't the gift of the gab, my lads, but yet I thankful be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You've done your duty handsomely, each man stood to his gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you hadn't, you villains, as sure as day, I'd have flogged each mother's son.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I'm at sea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll fight 'gainst every odds—and I'll gain the victory.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Frederick Marryat.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>