SCENE VI. Nelson and Hardy on the battle-deck, in the very thick of

the dreadful engagement. And, see, Nelson sinks rather than falls, and his faithful Hardy springs to his side. On that very spot his secretary, Scott, was killed some time before, and the blood, still fresh, stains our hero's clothes. I see him being borne tenderly below to the cockpit. I see him--kindly-hearted even in the hour of death--place his handkerchief over his face that his brave fellows may not know 'tis he, their own loved admiral, who is being carried below.