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Title: Old Salamander : the life and naval career of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 United States. Navy Admirals
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard New York : C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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remarks, thanked the gentlemen employed in the yard
for the honor and respect paid him, and stated that each
of them had while building ships for the navy contributed
with him in closing the wicked rebellion, and that he
hoped that as long as the labor was performed as honest-
ly and faithfully as at present, if the Government needed
them, they would be employed. Three cheers were again
given him and the steamer left the wharf. As he passed
the United States Steamship Pawnee, late flag-ship of Ad-
miral Dahlgren, the yards were manned, and six cheers
given for the 'Hero of the Mississippi.'
" A farewell salute of fifteen guns was fired by the
Vandalia as the Admiral steamed out of the harbor."
We close this outline of a splendid career, with a
poem by General J. Watts De Peyster:

FARRAGUT.
"Hark, Odin's voice! he calls,
And vast Walhalla's walls—
Palace of Immortality and Fame—
Rock as he thunders forth a glorious name,
Farragut! Farragut!
Who 'mid death and flame
Skill imsurpass'd displayed in war's dread game.
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Reception of Admiral Farragut —Page 339.


LIFE OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. 341

Ye Scalds your harps bring forth,
To Vikings of the North
Sing Sea Chief peerless,
In battle fearless,
On river, sea, achievements past outvying,
Wears rostrate crown, all perils known defying.

What Caros was to Romans, upon the ' Narrow Seas, 'At Salam
is to Persians, Athens' Themistocles
Constantius to the Franci, off Cadiz, coast of Spain,
That fatal spot to Frenchmen, Trafalgar o'er again;
What Rollo was to Gallia, when up Seine swarmed his fleet,
Blind Dandolo to Byzance, Kiuperli to Crete,
What Tromp, with broom at masthead, and ' Pope of Ocean ' Ruyter
To despot foes of Holland, who to dust would smite her ;
What Nelson to Napoleon, Great Britain's great Sea-Fighter,
Is Farragut to Rebels, who never yet has failed;
But spite of forts, rams, iron-walls, victoriously sailed.
Ye Sea-Kings in Valhalla, he lives vour worthy peer.
And Odin's gates will open when thither he shall steer. ,
As flew the chain asunder when thro the waiting foe
His flag-ship Hartfords Hartford's pennon wav'd o'er the hell below.'

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