With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the whole sea's speech", Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Hints; The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear / The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. / We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood / In our own veins, impetuous and near", Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs'.
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“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
Than ever were lost at sea.”
With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Dum vivimus vigilamus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
