Kosh's Shadow 2/21/2020 5:22:00 PM

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Is this a sailor's pub from 1812?

Or does it have the oldest sailor still afloat?

Kosh's Shadow 2/21/2020 5:26:02 PM

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Aye, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky

Beneath it rung the battle shout
And burst the cannon's roar
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more

Her deck, once red with heroes blood
Where knelt the vanquished knee
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!

Oh better that her tattered hulk
Should sink beneath the waves
Her thunder shook the mighty deep
And there should be her grave

Nail to the mast her holy flag
Set every threadbare sail
And give her to the god of storms
The lightening and the gale

Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes

(from memory so please excuse any errors)

Kosh's Shadow 2/21/2020 6:14:16 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:
.Realized I made some errors but will leave it for now