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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
"I have found my heart again," said E.23, under cover of the platform's tumult. "Hunger and fear make men dazed, or I might have thought of this escape before. I was right. They come to hunt for me. Thou hast saved my head."