- TO sea, to sea! The calm is o'er;
- The wanton water leaps in sport,
- And rattles down the pebbly shore;
- The dolphin wheels, the sea-cow snorts,
- And unseen mermaids' pearly song
- Comes bubbling up, the weeds among.
- Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:
- To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er.
- To sea, to sea! our wide-winged bark
- Shall billowy cleave its sunny way,
- And with its shadow, fleet and dark,
- Break the caved Tritons' azure day,
- Like mighty eagle soaring light
- O'er antelopes on Alpine height.
- The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,
- The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
