sea-chorus

Updated: May 16, 2025

We youngsters, who were rocked to sleep with the roar of the surf in our ears, one wall of whose play-room was colored in blue edged with white, in striking contrast with the peaceful green of the three other sides, who have many a night lain warm in bed and listened to the distant roll of a sea-chorus and the swinging tramp of a dozen jolly blue-jackets, we whose greatest indulgence was a sail with Old Card, the boatman par excellence, we who knew ships, as the farmer's boy knows his oxen, before we had mastered the multiplication-table, it is not strange that we should take kindly to salt water.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859