THE TENTH WAVE
It is an old idea that the seventh and ninth waves are larger than the rest, and have mystic power. It is tsaic! that the waves keep increasing in regular series until the maximum arrives, and then the series begins again. When two waves coalesce they form a. large one, but this does not occur at fixed intervals The numbers 7 and 9 are considered to have mystic powers, but the most common theory is that the tenth wave is the largest. Burke says:— At length, tumbling from the Gallic coast, the victorious tenth wave shall ride, like the boar, over all the rest.
Tennyson, however, says the ninth : And then the two Dropt to the cove, and watch’d the great sea fall, Wave after wave each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 31 January 1936, Page 2
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