IV

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Fleet

You, you, that have the ordering of her fleet,

If you should only compass her disgrace,

When all men starve, the wild mob's million feet

Will kick you from your place,

But then too late, too late.

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