heavenless

Updated: May 23, 2025

Till this good man I will say this great man carried his baffling compound of sacred zeal and keen sense into that weary country, those toiling sailors were hopeless, loveless, comfortless, joyless, and I say it with awe heavenless; for scarcely a man of them had knowledge or expectation of a life wherein the miseries of this one may be redressed in some far land where Time is not."

James Runciman - A Dream of the North Sea