“Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,There I'll establish a city for me.”
“REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he long'd to be;Home is the sailor, home from the sea,And the hunter home from the hill.”
“I'll be as silent as the grave.”
“Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.”
“This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment. ”
“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”
“The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.”