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“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.”

May Death Stars Clear Sea Bars Evening Sunset Moaning

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.”

May Enough Names Sea Floats Buoyancy

Author:Richard Watson Gilder

“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.”

Looks May Sea Tomorrow Sorrow Wide Fortunate Dawn Each Day Chairs Pace Idle Lawns Elbows Morrow Hail Pads Carols Ponies Larks Less Fortunate Blithe

Author:John Churton Collins

“I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.”

May Gone Knowing Sea Mines Return Summer Spring Bird Rose Melody Robins

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.”

Men May Home Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Alleys Bragging Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Catching Fish

Author:Ann Landers

“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

May Ends Lasts Past Sea Return Ocean Rivers Mysterious Streams Origin Of Life Transmutation

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”

Firsts Humans May Earth Levels Sea Ocean Ice Sea Level Rise

Author:John Luther Adams

“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Way May Eye Care Behinds Happened Sea Minutes Scene Mountain Devil My Friends Wings Tranquility Eagles Summit Tents

Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North

Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North

“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.”

May Left Wish Sea Land Mines Comfort Chains Thee Vain Ties Land And Sea

Author:William Wordsworth

“When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.”

May Children War Today Names Grief Sea Victory Madness Banner

Author:Robert W. Service

“Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.”

Mind May Real Cities Quality Sea Lessons Perception Losing Scientist South Treasure Weed Farmers Cows Splits Fractions Pastures Redwoods Adventuring

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There