A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
No. 48 ("Parta Quies"), st. 1. <br class="br"> More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!”
Dying words as his frigate Squirrel sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores, 5 August 1583, Quoted in Richard Hakluyt Third and Last Volume of the Voyages of the English Nation, 1600. Dictionary of Quotations, p. 353
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