Excerpt from Brittannia's Bulwarks: An Historical Poem, Descriptive of the Deeds of the British Navy Heroic deeds of classic days, Which find in Homer's Iliad praise And immortality. But yet more famed than all of these For their unnumbered victories Are England's sailor sons, Arace whose valour to extol, And every battle here enrol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.