230 GREEN TRAILS AND UPLAND PASTURES 



heeled over on the beach or amid the fragrant sedges, a 

 mute and wistful witness to the romance of the deep, 

 the blue and restless deep where man has adventured 

 in craft his hands have made since the earliest sun of 

 history, and whereon he will adventure, ardently and 

 insecure, till the last syllable of recorded time. 



