Anonymous

“ She settled...the billows over her flashed...
And she went to the bottom straight!
The Congress then was the vessel doomed
And toward the spot where her rigging loomed
Dim through the smoke of her guns that boomed,
The nondescript went, full tilt;
The men on board, as I said, were few,
The strength of their foe too well they knew,
So there seemed but one thing left to do,
Lest blood should be uselessly spilt. ”