• A mist was driving down the British Channel,
      The day was just begun,
    And through the window-panes, on floor and panel,
      Streamed the red autumn sun.

    It glanced on flowing flag and rippling pennon,
      And the white sails of ships;
    And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon
      Hailed it with feverish lips.

    Sandwich and...