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Who hath desired the Sea -- the sight of salt-water unbounded? The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm -- grey, foamless, enormous, and growing? Stark calm on the lap of the Line -- or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing? His Sea in no showing the same -- his Sea and the same 'neath all showing -- His Sea that his being fulfils? So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise hill-men desire their Hills! The Sea and the Hills
"Who goes to the Hills goes to his mother."