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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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"The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!"

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"I ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoe’er I go."

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"I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more."

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"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream."

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