Deck and Port: Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California ; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco |
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... miles off , he bade us adieu and disappeared in the distant horizon . A safe passage to him and a speedy return to those left behind . He too has his home , and those there who make that home dear ; and though but a bird of the wild ...
... miles off , he bade us adieu and disappeared in the distant horizon . A safe passage to him and a speedy return to those left behind . He too has his home , and those there who make that home dear ; and though but a bird of the wild ...
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... miles a day . This , before steam began to anni- hilate space , would have been considered very fair travelling . But now it is a tortoise by the side of an antelope . Four bells have struck - my light must be extinguished , and I can ...
... miles a day . This , before steam began to anni- hilate space , would have been considered very fair travelling . But now it is a tortoise by the side of an antelope . Four bells have struck - my light must be extinguished , and I can ...
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... miles . A vast sheet of water spreads between us and our homes , but a greater between us and our port of destination . Our fresh provisions still hold out , but the appearance of a junk of corned beef on our table every day indicates ...
... miles . A vast sheet of water spreads between us and our homes , but a greater between us and our port of destination . Our fresh provisions still hold out , but the appearance of a junk of corned beef on our table every day indicates ...
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... miles which we have run , must have pretty well scoured her copper . Others ascribe it to her lying so deep ; but this difficulty every day is removing in the consumption of provisions and water . We shall soon be able to settle the ...
... miles which we have run , must have pretty well scoured her copper . Others ascribe it to her lying so deep ; but this difficulty every day is removing in the consumption of provisions and water . We shall soon be able to settle the ...
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... miles a day , was crossed this afternoon by a squall from the south , and knocked under . We watched its overthrow with grief , and expected for some time that it would rally and overpower its an- tagonist . But victory remained with ...
... miles a day , was crossed this afternoon by a squall from the south , and knocked under . We watched its overthrow with grief , and expected for some time that it would rally and overpower its an- tagonist . But victory remained with ...
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Admiral Seymour albatros anchor beautiful bird Brazil breeze broad pennant broken Callao Cape Horn capstan Chili church clime clouds Commodore Stockton crew dark dead dead calm death deck deep Du Pont fall floating flowers force FRIDAY frigate gale GEORGE PAULET grave guns hail heart heaven Honolulu human hundred Indian islands knots the hour lady land larboard light Lima look man-of-war mass Mazatlan ment miles MONDAY moral morning never night o'er ocean officers passed Peru plunged porpoises port quarter reach religion repose rience rock roll rush Sabbath sail sailor SATURDAY seemed shadows ship shore silent sleep slumber soft soon spirit steep storm strength SUNDAY thee thing thou thousand throw thunder THURSDAY tion to-day triumphs TUESDAY Valparaiso WALTER COLTON watch wave WEDNESDAY wild wind
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Page 315 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Page 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 282 - Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. • Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Page 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Page 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...