...return.' THE SEA. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll! ******** Unchangeable save to ^hy wild waves play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine...brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."—Childe Harold. All sail was now crowded upon the ship, as the Captain was anxious to double...

...empires which have flourished and fallen, on the borders of the ocean, with its own unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the...

...unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so Hum, Unchangeable, gave to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no wrinkle on...thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, them rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced...

...vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; 3 Time writes no wrinkles Still falls the RainDark as the world of man, black as our lo^s Blind 4 Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, — the throne Of the Invisible!...

...thee— Assyria, Greece, Borne, Carthage, what are they Г Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Mas dried Dp realms to deserts : — not so thou; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time...

...unknown" (4.179), and furthermore Byron seems to admit that the ocean alone is unfurrowed by mortality: "Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — /Such as Creation's dawn beheld, Thou rollest now" (4.182). But omnipotence of thought really has no limits. Suddenly the ocean resembles a Byronic hero:...

...all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay 1635 Has dried up realms to deserts: - not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time...

...qualified immediately by a prayerlike verse apostrophizing the sea as a mighty emblem of Divinity.32 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed - in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime...

...Greece. Rome. Carthage. what are thev? Thy waters washed their power while they were free. And manj a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger. slave. or savage: their decay lIas dried up realms to desarts [...]. Jerome McGann pinpoints the great importance of this stanza...

...to place Byron's at first sight strange use of 'sublime' in his great invocation in Cbilde Harold: Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time — Calm or convuls'd — in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the Pole, or in the torrid...