StoryTitle("caps", "The Sea") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(43, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sea! the sea! the open sea! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The blue, the fresh, the ever free! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without a mark, without a bound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It runneth the earth's wide regions round; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or like a cradled creature lies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'm on the sea! I'm on the sea! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am where I would ever be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the blue above, and the blue below, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And silence wheresoe'er I go;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If a storm should come and awake the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What matter? I shall ride and sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love, oh, how I love to ride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the fierce, foaming, bursting tide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When every mad wave drowns the moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whistles aloft his tempest tune,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tells how goeth the world below, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And why the sou'west blasts do blow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I never was on the dull, tame shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I loved the great sea more and more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And backwards flew to her billowy breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a mother she was, and is, to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I was born on the open sea!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Barry Cornwall.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>