Gleanings from the Sea; Showing the Pleasures, Pains and Penalties of Life Afloat with Contingencies Ashore
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Gleanings from the Sea; Showing the Pleasures, Pains and Penalties of Life Afloat with Contingencies Ashore


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A STORM AT THE POOL. The different points of interest about Biddeford Pool are so graphically stated by Capt. W. F. Goldthwait, in a rhymed description of a storm at the Pool, that I cannot refrain from printing it here, as a local specimen of the intellectual merit of the locality. The changes it has undergone in preparing it for the press but make more apparent its original strength. The clouds were gathering in the east, And to the westward swiftly flew, And o'er the southern sky they cast Their deep and darkening hue. The sea-bird, in her ocean nest, Seemed noting the wild tempest's sway, And, as she pecked her mottled breast, Poured forth a timely lay: Though skies be dark, no fear have we Who live beside the heaving sea. We ve watched the rise of many a storm, Have seen its power in everv form, And Nature's phases aye unfold, In the wave that flashed and the cloud that rolled; The quack of the wild duck darting by, The loon's hoo-hoo, the sea-gull's cry; The distant lands, uplooming clear, In the evening's dewy atmosphere, And ships, that seem to sail in air, Uplifted by the mirage there; The murky clouds that hurry past, The mists that gather thick and fast, The shifting winds, the eastern glin, The waves, like mountains, rolling in: All these, and signs in every form, We 've marked before the coming storm. Hark to the Storm King's boisterous roar E List to the waves that lash the shore, Bringing from the far off sea Sounds of its awful minstrelsy! And, all along- our rock-bound coast, The storm-fiends rage from post to post, And mermaids sing their wild refrain Which the winds whistle back again. From Porpoise Cape to Wood Isle light The seas display their caps of white; Far o'er the Bay to Lizzie C...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217961073
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021796107X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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