Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
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And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. – John Edward Masefield

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