“Who hath desired the Sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded—
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?”

—  Rudyard Kipling

The Sea and the Hills, Stanza 1 (1903).
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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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