Barry Cornwall

“ And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled,
And the Dolphins bared their backs of gold;
And never heard such an outcry wild,
As welcome to life the Ocean child,
I have lived, since then, in calm and strife,
Full fifty summers a rover's life,
With wealth to spend, and a power to range,
But never have sought or sighed for change:
And death, whenever he comes to me,
Shall come on the wide unbounded Sea. ”

“ The blue, the fresh, the ever free;
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round.
It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies,
Or like a craddled creature lies. ”

“ I never was on the dull tame shore,
But I loved the great Sea more and more :
And backward flew to her billowy birmant,
Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest,
And a mother she was and is to me,
For I was born on the open Sea. ”