Inconnu Posted:

...and so they carried Nelson down below as quickly as possible, so that none of the crew would know he had been hit… He was mortally wounded, and lying below decks with the battle still raging above, he murmured his last words: “Kiss me, Hardy,”... and then he died.

Hardy spake softly, a thin tear trickling down his bloody cheek, whispering,”Give me that man

That is not pbumion’s slave, and I will wear him

In my heart’s core.”