Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 287
onto the foe; and only a few mariners appearedwhere once the decks swarmed with hundredsof armed seamen prepared to answer the sum-mons for boarders. The lofty spars were partly 2 74 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE CONSTITUTION. [Feb. gone, only the lower masts and topmasts re-maining and the lower yards.… … THE REBUILDING OF THE CONSTITUT N 1844. whose eyes are dim, whose teeth are gone, andwhose last roar has rung over the wastes ofSahara. And yet a thrill of exultation ran through myveins as I thought that Hull and Preble andBainbridge and Stewart and Decatur hadwalked that quarterdeck, and from it…
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