Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 123.
“Never since Drake and Raleigh won
Our freedom of the seas,
Have sons of Britain dared and done
More valiantly than these.”
To the R.A.F., in Shadows on the Down and Other Poems (1941), p. 2
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