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VIA: The France and Flanders Campaign 1940
TO THE SEAMEN OF OPERATION DYNAMO
You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread
And drunken from your tin, and known your ways
I understand the qualities I praise
Though lacking all, with only words instead
I tell you this, that in future time
When Landsmen mention sailors, such, or such
Someone will say "Those fellows were sublime
Who brought the Armies from the Germans' clutch."
Through the long time the story will be told;
Long centries of praise on English lips
Of courage godlike and of hearts of gold
Off Dunquerque beaches in the little ships.
And ships will dip their colours in salute
To you, henceforth, when passing Zuydecoote.
Copied from The Nine Days Wonder by John Masefield.
TO THE SEAMEN OF OPERATION DYNAMO
You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread
And drunken from your tin, and known your ways
I understand the qualities I praise
Though lacking all, with only words instead
I tell you this, that in future time
When Landsmen mention sailors, such, or such
Someone will say "Those fellows were sublime
Who brought the Armies from the Germans' clutch."
Through the long time the story will be told;
Long centries of praise on English lips
Of courage godlike and of hearts of gold
Off Dunquerque beaches in the little ships.
And ships will dip their colours in salute
To you, henceforth, when passing Zuydecoote.
Copied from The Nine Days Wonder by John Masefield.