Under the trees . ! !? 4l\\^t at their feet, or along their precipitousledges; but the sea makes no concessionsto our human weakness, and leaves themessage which it intones with the voiceof tempest and the roar of surge withoutan interpreter. Men have come to it inall ages, full of a passionate desire to catchits meaning and enter into its secret, butthe thought of the boldest of them hasonly skirted its shores, and the vast sweepof untamed waters remains as on the firstday. Homer has given us the songof the landlocked sea, but where hasthe ocean found a human voice that isnot lost and forgott
Under the trees . ! !? 4l\\^t at their feet, or along their precipitousledges; but the sea makes no concessionsto our human weakness, and leaves themessage which it intones with the voiceof tempest and the roar of surge withoutan interpreter. Men have come to it inall ages, full of a passionate desire to catchits meaning and enter into its secret, butthe thought of the boldest of them hasonly skirted its shores, and the vast sweepof untamed waters remains as on the firstday. Homer has given us the songof the landlocked sea, but where hasthe ocean found a human voice that isnot lost and forgotten when it speaks tous in its own penetrating tones ? Themountains stand revealed in more thanone interpretation, touched by their ownsublimity, but the sea remains silent inhuman speech, because no voice willever be strong enough to match its awfulmonody. It is because the sea preserves its secretthat it sways our imagination so royally,and holds us by an influence which never. I I ?I- \ i\. In . jl IV.(^ . I I JI II .? /I . 1/ r ^.
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