Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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I am where I would ever be,

With the blue above and the blue below,

And silence wheresoe'er I go.

The Sea.

I never was on the dull, tame shore,

But I loved the great sea more and more.

The Sea.

Touch us gently, Time![538:2]

Let us glide adown thy stream

Gently,—as we sometimes glide