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The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
See how the trees beside a stream in flood Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed, But by resisting perish root and branch.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro’.
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!
My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all.
But look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where’er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roar’d and howl’d, Like noises in a swound!
Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
