“O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free”

“If we would despise the enemy, our thoughts must always be of God and our souls always glad with hope.”

“The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”

“Glad and joyous and sweet is the Blissful lovely Cheer of our Lord to our souls.”

“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”

“As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea
A vision came o'er me
Of thundering hooves and beating wings
In clouds above.”

“A soul of water a soul of stone.
A soul by name a soul unknown.
The hours unmake our flesh our bone.
The Soul is all and all alone!”

“I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.”

“The present—the actual—were they our all—
Too heavy our burthen, too hopeless our thrall;
But heaven, that spreadeth o'er all its blue cope,
Hath given us memory,—hath given us hope!”

“Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.”