Sea Breezes, Volume 7Sea Breezes, 1924 |
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Page 39 - Like unto ships far off at sea, Outward or homeward bound, are we. Before, behind, and all around, Floats and swings the horizon's bound, Seems at its distant rim to rise And climb the crystal wall of the skies, And then again to turn and sink, As if we could slide from its outer brink.
Page 150 - We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean ; puts out our fires ; And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Page 205 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song. Like the long waves on a sea-beach...
Page 30 - But, sailor or landsman, there is some sort of a Cape Horn for all. Boys ! beware of it ; prepare for it in time. Graybeards ! thank God it is passed. And ye lucky livers, to whom, by some rare fatality, your Cape Horns are placid as Lake Lemans, flatter not yourselves that good luck is judgment and discretion ; for all the yolk in your eggs, you might have foundered and gone down, had the Spirit of the Cape said the word.
Page 213 - Wouldst thou," — so the helmsman answered, " Learn the secret of the sea ? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery !" In each sail that skims the horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley.
Page 6 - Where lies the land to which the ship would go ? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from ? Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
Page 27 - ... into rake, The life demanded by that art, the keen Eye-puckered, hard-case seamen, silent, lean, — They are grander things than all the art of towns, Their tests are tempests and the sea that drowns, They are my country's line, her great art done By strong brains labouring on the thought unwon, They mark our passage as a race of men, Earth will not see such ships as those again.
Page 196 - Bank has, with its AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS— THE BRITISH BANK OF SOUTH AMERICA, LTD., and THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SPANISH AMERICA, Ltd.
Page 309 - I should be greatly obliged if you or any of your readers could tell me the publisher (or a means of procuring) of a book of stories in West Country dialect, one of which stories, or the whole collectively (I am not sure which), is called
Page 70 - Scotia, they were indeed people 'who went down to the sea in ships and did business in many waters.