WATER NEVER THE SAME Beside a flowing river sit and gaze, And see how it perpetually runs In wave on wave, in many thousand turns, As through the fields it takes its fluid ways. Thou’lt never see again the wave which first Flow’d by thee; water never the same;...
“Perhaps there is nothing which offers to the eye and the mind a more complete and more sorrowful representation of the world than the sea. In the first place, it is a picture of force in its wildest and most unconquerable form; it is a display, a luxury of...