THE SEA.
t I'Oit all that has been said of the love that 1 certain natures (on shore) have professed to ] feel for it, for all the celebrations it has „ been the object of in prose, and song, the < sea has never been friendly to man. At * moot it has been the accomplice of human <• restlessness, and playing the part of dan- l <l( - world-wide ambitious. 1-•ai-ntul to 110 rate after the manner of f tne kindly earth, receiving no impress from v valour and toil and self-sacrifice, recognis- a nig 110 finality of dominion, the sea."has - s never adopted the cause of its masters as I t whose lands have done where the victorious | t nations of mankind have taken root, rock- i i ing their cradles and setting up their »rave- 1 I' stones. . . ' ' In Impenetrable and heartless, the sea has | b given nothing of itself to the suitors for its ' » precarious favours. Unlike the earth, it '«> cannot be subjugated at. any cost of patience i j' and toil. For all its fascination that has j h lured so many to a violent, death, its im- j " meiibily has never been loved as the nioun- atarns, the plains, the deceit- itself have been , ii loved—Joseph Conradj in Blackwood ) P
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13193, 2 June 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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211THE SEA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13193, 2 June 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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