"The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!"
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The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Bryan Procter
Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (November 21, 1787 – October 5, 1874) was an English poet, and father of Adelaide Anne Procter.
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