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CHAPTER XVII. 



NEARING HOME AND ANALOGIES FROM THE SEA. 



" When one returneth from a distant land, 



Where he hath been in pilgrimage afar, 

 And seeks once more, his wanderings done, to stand 



Beneath the brightness of his country's star, 

 It is with beating heart and joyful eyes 



He views the long-remember'd scenes again, 

 The mountains far, ascending to the skies, 



The verdant hills more near, the flowering plain, 



The willow-shaded stream, the fields of golden grain." 



T. C. U. 



Hopes and Fears on nearing Home Dangers of the Coast 

 Religious Exercises and Fruits Spiritual Lessons. 



Inside Nantucket Shoals. 



IF a man be coming off a long voyage, or from 

 a lengthened absence in any foreign land, 

 without having been so fixed as to allow of a 

 frequent interchange of letters with those that 

 are dear to him, he must be singularly stupid 

 not to find thickly thronging into his mind many 

 thoughts, hopes, and fears, imaginations and 

 apprehensions as he nears his native shores. 



