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I asked myself the question one day whilst standing on the bridge of one of the handsomest and stoutest of the Union Company's steamboats, outward bound to the Cape of Good Hope, What has become of the old romance of the sea?
/ "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"