A row of portraits of admirals past
hang on the old royal yacht’s hull —
Their time of banal glory is past
and the ship sleeps in a perpetual lull:
Their eyes stare back and blankly gaze
at the tourists who they never knew
as their memory fades into the misty haze
of the dark harbor of yesteryear too

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