79 335 345 ——//——
Everything is for a term venerated in
navies. Sailors Any tangible object associated
with any A some striking incident, of that the service is
converted into a monument. The spar
from which the Foretopman was suspended,
was for some years was for some few
followed years kept trace of by the
bluejackets. Their knowledges pursued ^ followed it
from ship to dock-yard and again
from dock-yard to ship, following still pursuing it
even when ^ at last reduced to a meer
dock-yard boom. To them a chip of it
was as a piece of the Cross. Ignorant tho'
they were of the secret facts of the tragedy,
and not thinking but that the penalty was
somehow justly necessarily ^ unavoidably inflicted from the naval point of view,
79 335 345 ——//——
Everything is for a term venerated in
navies. Sailors Any tangible object associated
with any A some striking incident, of that the service is
converted into a monument. The spar
from which the Foretopman was suspended,
was for some years was for some few
followed years kept trace of by the
bluejackets. Their knowledges pursued ^ followed it
from ship to dock-yard and again
from dock-yard to ship, following still pursuing it
even when ^ at last reduced to a meer
dock-yard boom. To them a chip of it
was as a piece of the Cross. Ignorant tho'
they were of the secret facts of the tragedy,
and not thinking but that the penalty was
somehow justly necessarily ^ unavoidably inflicted from the naval point of view,

Transcribed by: John Bryant