The sea (microform) - its stirring story of adventure, peril and heroism (1880) (20431274178)

Title: The sea (microform) : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism
Identifier: cihm_17845 (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Whymper, Frederick, b. 1838
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan
Publisher: London; New York : Cassel, Petter, Galpin
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FALCONER'S '• SHIPWRECK." 297 He sinks into thy depths with bubbling ufroaii, Without n giavf, iinknclIcJ, uncoffinod, and unK-nown. * * • * « "Thy sliorcs aro empii-os, changed in all sivo (hoc — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what arc they 't Thy waters washed them jjowcr wliile they were fi i e. And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou;— Unchangeable save to thy wiid waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."
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' DEEP OX HFP SIDE THE UEELIKO VESSEL LIES. The poet par excellence o£ the sea, partly on account of the literary merits of his production, but more by reason of his technical correctness, was William Falconer, the author of " The Shipwreck," on the title pages of all the older editions of which he is described simply as " a sailor." His poem, which is in three cantos, was founded on actual incidents in a shipwreck from which himself and but two or three of the crew were saved. Again, in 17C9 he embarked on board the Aurora frigate on a venture to the East Indies, but from the time the ship left the Cape of Good Hope no information was ever received of her, and she is believed to have foundered with all hands, including the poet. Falconer, although a disciple of the Muse, \vi-ote a political satire, entitled, " The Demagogue;" while his Marine Dictionary is, in its revised form, a recognised authority to-day. The poem on which his fame rests is remarkable for the absolute correctness of its details. Take, for example, the following passage, which could not have been written by a landsman-poet:— 158

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