Never since Drake and Raleigh won
Our freedom of the seas,
Have sons of Britain dared and done
More valiantly than these.


To the R.A.F., in Shadows on the Down and Other Poems (1941), p. 2.

Alfred Noyes Quotes

Never since Drake and Raleigh won Our freedom of the seas, Have sons of Britain dared and done More valiantly than these.

Never since Drake and Raleigh won Our freedom of the seas, Have sons of Britain dared and done More valiantly than these.

Never since Drake and Raleigh won Our freedom of the seas, Have sons of Britain dared and done More valiantly than these.

Never since Drake and Raleigh won Our freedom of the seas, Have sons of Britain dared and done More valiantly than these.