Explore "The Diver. a Ballad Translated from the German" by George Borrow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"Where is the man who will dive for his King, / In the pool as it rushes with turbulent sweep?
A cup from this surf-beaten jetty I fling, / And he who will seek it below in the deep, / And will bring it again to the light of the day, / As the meed of his valour shall bear it away.