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--Here's to Nelson's memory! 'T is the second time that I, at sea, Right off Cape Trafalgar here, Have drunk it deep in British Beer. Nelson forever--any time Am I his to command in prose or rhyme! Give me of Nelson only a touch, And I save it, be it little or much: Here 's one our Captain gives, and so Down at the word, by George, shall it go! He says that at Greenwich they point the beholder To Nelson's coat, "still with tar on the shoulder: For he used to lean with one shoulder digging, Jigging, as it were, and zig-zag-zigging Up against the mizzen-rigging!"