“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Source: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 43
“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”
Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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