Barry Cornwall,
The Sentimental Songster — The Sea
(1840s)
“ Like a bird that seeketh its mother’s (illegible text) , And a mother she was and is to me, (illegible text) I was born on the open Sea. The waves were white, and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born; And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled, And the Dolphins bared their backs of gold ”
