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Kept up a fusillade of jokes and jeers - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

The blinding dust wheeled in dense clouds - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Our proud brigades of undulating steel - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

That marched at sunrise under blazoned flags - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Singing the victory ere the cannon roared - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

And eager for the honors of the day - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Words of command were only wasted breath - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Cold rations and a canopy of storms - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Defiant, clutching at the throat of fate - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Bellows fire and molten lava into the midnight heavens - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Trembles to the bursting throes of submarine volcanoes - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Shrieked on the night and through the ether hissed - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

To reign over a world wrapt in the final hours - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

The vulture, perched hard by the eagle's crag - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Fell from command at victory's open gate - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Envy, with hydra-heads and serpent-tongues - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Where the prize of victory was empire - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Bengal tigers springing at the hounds - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

As a cyclone, growling thunder, roars down - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Piled in broad and broken swaths - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

The fiends that Dante heard along the gulf of hell - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Bees whose stings were deadlier than the Libyan asp - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Yelling their mad defiance to our fire - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Mowing wide swaths with circling scythes of fire - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"

Where a thousand foaming fountains singing seek - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Mississippi"

Ceasing never while the circling centuries run - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Mississippi"

The echoing heavens thundered infernal ruin - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"

An earthquake shock that jarred the granite hills - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"

O'er the Midgard-monster mighty Thor loomed - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"

Marched to the jubilee of chiming bells - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"

Write one word upon the rock of ages - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

Can but touch the sands about its feet - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

Have painted pictures for the blind - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

Sung my sweetest songs to ears of stone - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

If the dust of ages drift five fathoms deep - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

Words are clumsy wings for burning thought - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

In measured rhythm the planets whirl their course - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

Silver sonnets from their golden throats - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"

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