In the third stanza of Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendall Holmes, the speaker of the poem expresses that they would rather see the ship. _than_
'Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!'
Burn her threadbare sail than sold for scrap.
sunk to the bottom of the ocean than decommissioned.
given to the enemy than sold for scrap.
sold at auction than be decommissioned.