to-and-fro-travelling

Updated: May 10, 2025

"Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands; The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain-walls;" but a to-and-fro-travelling bird, keeping close to sea and shore. It is a gull's-eye view just as the flocks of herring gulls see it every day, passing back and forth from their seaward nesting-place to their favourite feeding-ground at Bar Harbor.

Henry Van Dyke - Days Off: And Other Digressions