The Lure of the Sea (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Patterson, J. E.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Lure of the Sea My Dear A - , Nigh thirty years ago, during a glorious and all too brief spell of vagabondage on the coasts of Greece and some of its many islands, I, one golden afternoon, fell asleep in such a bit of ´longshore scenery as I have endeavoured to picture in the first few lines of this attempt to write a poem on a classical subject. In my sleep I dreamt that some ancient pirates beached their galley on the spot, and came ashore to offer a sacrifice to Poseidon. That dream bore me company about the world, peeping to remembrance now and then; till at last I put it into verse, was disappointed and destroyed the effort - in a way, Poseidon´s goods given as a burnt offering to Apollo. Then, when I could no more go to sea - where, according to all the laws of the appropriate, such a thing should have been written - and was tallying timber on the squalid, ugly dockside in Cardiff, the apparently right moment came There, in chance minutes of leisure, amid the rattle and clatter, the dirt and the cursing of life on and about a coaling dock, the idea took fresh shape and words. But in the new rendering my dream-pirates were, alas, left out of the scheme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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