" Hail to thy face and odours, glorious Sea ! 

 "fwere thanklessness in me to bless thee not, 

 Great being ! in whose breath and smile 

 My heart beats calmer, and my very mind 

 Inhales salubrious thoughts. How welcomer 

 Thy murmurs than the murmurs of the world ! 

 Though like the world thou fluctuates!, thy din 

 To me is peace, thy restlessness repose. 

 E'en gladly I exchange yon spring-green lanes 

 "With all the darling field-flowers in their prime, 

 And gardens haunted by the nightingale's 

 Long trills, and gushing ecstasies of song, 

 For these wild headlands, and the sea-mew's clang. 



" The spirit of the universe in thee 

 Is visible, thou hast in thee the life 

 The eternal, graceful, and majestic life 

 Of nature : and the natural human heart 

 Is therefore bound to thee with holy love." Campbell. 



