“I ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea!
I am where I would ever be,
With the blue above and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe’er I go.”

—  Bryan Procter

The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet 1787–1874

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