. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . d by whom else could it have been made? I Who else can heave its tides and appoint its bounds ? Who else canj urge its mighty waves to madness with the breath and wings ofthe tempest, and then speak to it again in a masters accents andbid it be still ? Who else could have peopled it with its countless inhabi-tants, and caused it to bring forth its various productions, and filled itfrom its deepest bed to its expanded surface, filled it from its ceutre to itsremotest shores, filled it
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . d by whom else could it have been made? I Who else can heave its tides and appoint its bounds ? Who else canj urge its mighty waves to madness with the breath and wings ofthe tempest, and then speak to it again in a masters accents andbid it be still ? Who else could have peopled it with its countless inhabi-tants, and caused it to bring forth its various productions, and filled itfrom its deepest bed to its expanded surface, filled it from its ceutre to itsremotest shores, filled it to the brim with beauty and mystery and power ?Majestic Ocean! Glorious Sea! No created being rules thee or madethee. POETRY AND MYSTEHF OF THE SEA. What is there more i .:..blinie than the trackless, desert, all-surrounding,iufathomable sea? What is there more peacefully sublime than the calm,gently-heaving, silent sea? What is there more terribly sublime than ineangry, dashing, foaming sea? Power—resistless, overwhelming power —h its attribute and its expression, whether in the careless, conscious \. THE GESTLY-HEAVixNtj .SEA. ^a/idpur of its deep rest, or the wild tumult of its excited wrath. It isawful when its crested waves rise up to make a compact with the blackclouds and the howling winds, and the thunder and the thunderbolt, andthoy sweep on, in the joy of their dread alliance, to do the Almightysbidding. And it is awful, too, when it stretches its broad level out tomeet in quiet union the ])ondod sky, and show in the line of meeting thevast rotundity of tlu; world. Tluro majesty in its wide expanse, sepa-rating and ono;losing the great continents of the earth, occupying two-thirds of the whole surfice of the globe, penetrating the land with its baysand secondary seas, and receiving the constantly-pouring tribute of everyriver, of evoiy sliore. There is majesty in its fulness, never diminishingand never increasing. Tlierc is majesty in its integrity,—for its
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