With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908B. W. Huebsch, 1909 - 321 |
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Strona 78 - ... of low waves on the beach ; the other wild and heartlessly jubilant, as of the sea in the height of a tempest. Oh soul ! thou then heardest life and death : as he who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the ^Egean waves.
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