Sea Drift: Or Tribute to the Ocean (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sea Drift: Or Tribute to the Ocean

Vast and pliant Ocean, whose soft, large arms Enfold the Earth, holding in close embrace, To share with her the tireless daily round Through the long court-ways of the royal sun In unabated power and joy of might; We greet thee! Closest kin of air and light, And dowered like them with fair-souled purity. All hail, great Ocean, reprint of the sky!

Inspired with motion, pauseless, with no end Motion, the quickened breath of panting stars, And wing...