The sea and the s^jj are always changing. 

 What appears at first a monotony is, in fact, an 

 unending diversity. Time ivas, doubtless, in the 

 infancy of the earth Tohen the beds of the oceans 

 were filled with pestilent gases and vapors, and 

 time may be in the earth's old age when the seas 

 will be great frozen depths of ice; but to-day 

 they are in their prime, in the heyday of their 

 glory, strong in mass and movement, overwhelming 

 in extent and power, splendid in color and light. 



J. C. Van Dyke. 

 "Nature for Its Own Sake" 



All that grows has grace, — 

 All are appropriate,- — bog and marsh and fen 

 Are only poor to undiscerning men. 



Crabbe 



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