“Some love to roam o’er the dark sea’s foam,
Where the shrill winds whistle free.”
Charles Mackay (1814–1889) British writer
"Some Love to Roam".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
“It struck Duffy that a touch of hysteria had sharpened the good fellowship tonight, as if the night wind whistling under the eaves carried some pollen of impermanence, making everyone nostalgic for things they hadn’t yet lost.”
— Tim Powers, book The Drawing of the Dark
Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 6 (p. 86)
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