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The Story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail

Nor is his thought on harp or on ring-taking,

On woman’s delight or on the world’s hope,

Nor on aught else save the tossing of waves:

He ever has longing who hastens on water.

From The Seafarer

(Trans. from the Anglo-Saxon by Jonathan A. Glenn)