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As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent s ...
The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
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He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
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Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
The sea--this truth must be confessed--has no generosity. No display of manly qualities--courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulne ...
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath
An embassy.
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