I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.