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In "To the Sea," "From the Depths," and "In Mid-Ocean," it is the sea of Whitman's magnificent apostrophe that he celebrates the sea of "brooding scowl and murk," of "unloosed hurricanes," speaking, imperiously, "with husky-haughty lips"; while elsewhere, as in the "Wandering Iceberg" and "Nautilus" studies, the pervading tone is of Swinburne's "deep divine dark dayshine of the sea."
Before the French Revolution, only a few were invited to sit down and eat, while the majority were permitted to kneel and watch from a distance. A Frenchman once remarked, "The great appear to us great because we are kneeling let us rise." They rose, and out of the turmoil came an enormous enlargement of the dining-hall. Carl Sandburg sings of Chicago with husky-haughty lips.
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