Nevertheless, to
one
anybody
who can hold
the Present at its worth without being
inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven ,
if to him such an one, the memorable solitary solitary old hulk at
Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory , seems to float
there, not not alone as the decaying monument
of a fame xcorruptabl incorruptible , but also as a
poetic reproach, softened by its picturesqueness, to
the Monitors and yet iron mightier hulls of the European iron- clad. clads clan .
And this not altogether because they these monsters such craft are
ugly unsightly, totally lacking in unavoidably
lacking in the symmetry , magesty, loftiness & and grand
lines of the old battle-ships, but
equally for other reasons. [with the mark on the deck
where he fell]
the Present at its worth without being
inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven ,
if to him such an one, the memorable solitary solitary old hulk at
Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory , seems to float
there, not not alone as the decaying monument
of a fame xcorruptabl incorruptible , but also as a
poetic reproach, softened by its picturesqueness, to
the Monitors and yet iron mightier hulls of the European iron- clad. clads clan .
And this not altogether because they these monsters such craft are
ugly unsightly, totally lacking in unavoidably
lacking in the symmetry , magesty, loftiness & and grand
lines of the old battle-ships, but
equally for other reasons. [with the mark on the deck
where he fell]
Nevertheless, to
one
anybody
who can hold
the Present at its worth without being
inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven ,
if to him such an one, the memorable solitary solitary old hulk at
Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory , seems to float
there, not not alone as the decaying monument
of a fame xcorruptabl incorruptible , but also as a
poetic reproach, softened by its picturesqueness, to
the Monitors and yet iron mightier hulls of the European iron- clad. clads clan .
And this not altogether because they these monsters such craft are
ugly unsightly, totally lacking in unavoidably
lacking in the symmetry , magesty, loftiness & and grand
lines of the old battle-ships, but
equally for other reasons. [with the mark on the deck
where he fell]
the Present at its worth without being
inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven ,
if to him such an one, the memorable solitary solitary old hulk at
Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory , seems to float
there, not not alone as the decaying monument
of a fame xcorruptabl incorruptible , but also as a
poetic reproach, softened by its picturesqueness, to
the Monitors and yet iron mightier hulls of the European iron- clad. clads clan .
And this not altogether because they these monsters such craft are
ugly unsightly, totally lacking in unavoidably
lacking in the symmetry , magesty, loftiness & and grand
lines of the old battle-ships, but
equally for other reasons. [with the mark on the deck
where he fell]
Transcribed by: John Bryant