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USS CONSTITUTION. The Constitution--called Old Ironsides because cannonballs could not penetrate her tough oak sides--was one of the first of the original six frigates that made up the U.S. Navy. A 44-gun frigate built at the Edmond Hartt Shipyard, Boston, MA, in 1797.
The poem was an impromptu outburst of feeling and was published on the next day but one after reading the above paragraph. [When Poetry:a Metrical Essay was published this poem was introduced as an interlude at the close of the second section.] (3-4) Old Ironsides was famous for having defeated the British ship Guerriere in the War of 1812. Thanks to Holmes' poem, Old Ironsides was saved. 15. harpies: half-woman, half-bird predators