THE LONELY SEA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE LONELY SEA.

Writing of a voyage to Australia, and of the many days when tho ship passed no island or trace of man's habitation, a traTclkr has said that at such a time the sense of delicate beauty is peculiarly strong; tho momentary rainbows, made by strong light on the veils of spray blown back from the waves, are strangely beautiful; the flying-fish are almost fairylike as they flash from wave to wave. And, thinking of this vast, landless ocean, we are reminded of a charming tribute once paid to a ship by Lady Constanco Lyttori. u 1 was filled with veneration <inu love foe th» ship," sho said. " Sho glided no nobly, with stoch dignity, into her resting-place; bringing safo to their destination all those who had trusted to her, and taking to herself no praise or merit for the glorious thing she had accomplished. We remember, too, a letter form a Polish lady who had been struck by the wonderful solitude of tho ocean. "We were crossing tho Atlantic in Trar-time," she said, " and there were very few ship 3 about. Wo had been days on the water without seeing * boat.. At last we met a liner, and, as we passed it, tho passengers crowded on tho decks of both vessels. They waved their bats to each other, they laughed, shouted and seemed to be mad with delight: vet all ■w«! knew about tho other people vras that they , were human beings like ourselves, that we were not alone in tho vastnesj of tbe eea."