And swore he'd fight our gallant crew, Paddies and Scots and all. Then out he went in desperate rage, Swearing, as sure as day, He'd starve us all or dare us out Of Valparaiso Bay. Then out he sailed in gallant trim, As if he thought to fright us, Run up his flag and fired a gun To say that he would fight us. Our cables cut, we put to sea, And ran down on his quarter, And Johnny clapped his helm hard up, And we went following after. In haste to join the Cherub he Soon bent his scurvy way, While we returned in merry glee To Yalaparaiso Bay. And let them go. To meet the foe We 'll take no farther trouble, Since all the world must fairly know They 'll only fight us double. Ne'er mind, my lads, let's drink and sing, "Free trade and sailors' rights." May liquor never fail the lad Who for his country fights. Huzza, my lads, let's drink and sing, And toast them as they run: "Here's to the sailors and their king Who 'll fight us two to one." There were other exploits of American ships told in verse, among them the gallant repulse, by the crew of the privateer General Armstrong, Captain Samuel C. Reid, in the Harbor of Fayal, of the boats of three British men-of-war, which was the subject of a forecastle ballad, but none of this memorial verse reached the level of poetry. The battles of Lake Erie and Lake Champlain also had their numerous laureates; and the raid of Admiral Cockburn and the troops upon Baltimore was the subject of a song, the opening lines of which have a vigor and strong rhythm not maintained throughout. Old Ross, Cochrane, and Cockburn too, And many a bloody villain more, Swore with their bloody, savage crew That they would plunder Baltimore. The naval service during the civil war did not produce any songs that achieved popularity in comparison with that won by the songs of land service, like John Brown's Body, The Year of Jubilo, and Marching through Georgia, and in fact was singularly deficient in poetry, with the remarkable exception of the productions of Mr. Henry Howard Brownell. There were few singleship engagements except the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and the Kearsarge and the Alabama, and the blockading service was not calculated to inspire the martial muse.