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Among those thousands of vessels many must, every year,
And death.html">death.html">death at sea.html">sea.html">sea had a great horror and anguish attached to it; the
rites and all the last offices that can be paid to death, made it none
tales of sea-peril and shipwreck had the most powerful fascination.
hateful; "as much as a mother is sweeter than a stepmother," says
fisherman tossing on the waves looked back.html">back with envy to the shepherd,
his flock on the green hillside; the great merchantman who crossed the
beyond Calpe into the unknown ocean.html">ocean, hungered for the peace of broad
nautica pinus mutabit merces/: all dreams of a golden age, or of an
weary and faithless element. even.html">Even in death it would not allow its
have given him burial on the beach, even there the ceaseless thunder
reef will not let him be quiet; "keep back but twelve feet from me,"
wilt."[29] But even the grace of a tomb was often denied. In the
flung on a desert beach. Erasippus, perished with his ship, has all
a spot that the seagulls alone can tell. Thymodes rears a cenotaph to
naked corpse on an inhospitable shore. Young Seleucus, wrecked in the
while yet at home in Lesbos they praise him and look forward to his
that does not cover Polymedes, tossed up and down far from stony
one abruptly opens, the thought of all those many others whom the sea
drowned man.[30] The ocean never forgot its cruelty. {Pasa thalassa
past the perilous Cyclades and the foaming narrows of the Hellespont
words echoes the heavy wash of blind waves and the hissing of eternal
Aeolia, the sailor says to himself, "to-morrow the long battle. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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