With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part —
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart.


The Poetical Works of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1914)


With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart.

With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart.

With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart.

With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart.