"A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Like an eagle caged I pine On this dull unchanging shore: Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar!"
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A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Epes Sargent
Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813 β December 30, 1880) was an American poet and playwright of the Knickerbocker group.
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