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Bryan Procter
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“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Bryan W. Procter
“I ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoe’er I go.”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Bryan W. Procter
“I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Bryan W. Procter
“Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream.”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., …
Also quoted by: Bryan W. Procter