Bluish ’mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;

In the dimmest North-east distance dawn’d Gibraltar grand and gray;

“Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?”—say,

Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray,

While Jove’s planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.

Robert Browning.


GREEN SEAS AND SAILOR MEN


1. The Call of the Sea