..."invocation," which paraphrases a stanza of Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I: And l have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports...to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy l wantoned with thy breakers,... And l trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy...

...in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. (iv, 183) In 'storm' the sea is certainly at its grandest, and it is just because tempest forces it...

...taken with a life ring recovered from the ill-fortuned Waukesha. The Charmed Life of the Lyman M. Davis And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful...thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing...

...might have said had I not recollected just then that I was one LORD BYRON Excerpt from "Childe Harold" And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful...thy bubbles onward; from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing...

...the form of the Almighty: Dark-heaving — boundless, endless and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the invisible, even from out thy slime The...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. (IV: 183) Byron's address to the sea recalls Plato's description of chora as "formless, and free from...