Free French Navy

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    “There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 3:17-19.

    “Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
    When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
    And how the boistous winds did beat
    Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
    Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
    Appeased the gods that them withstood.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)