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Article WELL DONE, CONDOR! ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Page 1 of 2 →
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Well Done, Condor!
" Well done , Condor , " said the signal , As on a very famous day In self defence the batteries silenced "" In distant Alexandria's bay , Bore -witness how our gallant seamen ,
Fighting for honour and for right , And thundering " Iron walls " of ours , Made manifest Britannia ' s might .
And ' mid that calm and needful struggle , When our Admiral in faith and trust , Knew that his men would " do their duty , " And crush the threatening forts to dust , The Condor , closing with the battery ,
Silenced the great guns one by one ; Up went the kindly , gracious signal" Condor , —Avell—done !" So Ave , who like to honour duty , And brave deeds wrought in England's name ,
To laud the heroes of great story , To sing the songs of loyal fame , May well record in " Maga ' s" pages How a Brother won the Admiral ' s praise , And in our "Mystic chain" of kindness To Beresford ' s name our paeans raise .
The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Continued from page 54 . ) "JVTONE but the prejudiced and the uninformed will say that the * Templars had been justly punished , and punished for their crimes . It is evident that the chevaliers Avho had the weakness to confess
themselves guilty , were pardoned ; and that those Avho had retracted their false confessions , were condemned to be burned . This difference in the judgment of the provincial councils should never be forgotten . It Avould be useless and irksome to notice all the other sentences
passed on those unfortunate victims . Instead of exciting indignation against some tribunals , perhaps only guilty for having yielded to the spirit of the times , and to the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Well Done, Condor!
" Well done , Condor , " said the signal , As on a very famous day In self defence the batteries silenced "" In distant Alexandria's bay , Bore -witness how our gallant seamen ,
Fighting for honour and for right , And thundering " Iron walls " of ours , Made manifest Britannia ' s might .
And ' mid that calm and needful struggle , When our Admiral in faith and trust , Knew that his men would " do their duty , " And crush the threatening forts to dust , The Condor , closing with the battery ,
Silenced the great guns one by one ; Up went the kindly , gracious signal" Condor , —Avell—done !" So Ave , who like to honour duty , And brave deeds wrought in England's name ,
To laud the heroes of great story , To sing the songs of loyal fame , May well record in " Maga ' s" pages How a Brother won the Admiral ' s praise , And in our "Mystic chain" of kindness To Beresford ' s name our paeans raise .
The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Continued from page 54 . ) "JVTONE but the prejudiced and the uninformed will say that the * Templars had been justly punished , and punished for their crimes . It is evident that the chevaliers Avho had the weakness to confess
themselves guilty , were pardoned ; and that those Avho had retracted their false confessions , were condemned to be burned . This difference in the judgment of the provincial councils should never be forgotten . It Avould be useless and irksome to notice all the other sentences
passed on those unfortunate victims . Instead of exciting indignation against some tribunals , perhaps only guilty for having yielded to the spirit of the times , and to the