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THE SEA. 



" HE SINKS INTO THY DEPTHS WITH BUBBLING GROAN, 



WITHOUT A GRAVE, UNKNELLED, UNCOFFINED, AND UNKNOWN." 



Next to Shakespeare in intimate knowledge and power to portray, Byron must be placed. 

 What can be grander than his well-known apostrophe to the Ocean ? 



" Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll ! 

 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; 

 Man marks the earth with ruin his control 

 Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain, 

 The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain 

 A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, 

 When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, 



