 The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where...  The Seven Seas - Página 10por Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 209 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 páginas
...The angel of the offshore wind.' ' He that bits the thunder when the bull-mouthed breakers flee.' ' Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white seasnakes are.' ' And the water's splashin' hollow on the skin of the empty hold.' ' Churuin' an' chokin' an' chucklin',... | |
 | 1893 - 972 páginas
...admiralty If blood be the price of admiralty Good God we ha' bought it fair ! THE DEEP-SEA CABLES. The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. Here in the womb of the world — here... | |
 | Sir Charles Bright - 1898 - 916 páginas
...successful laying of the first great submarine telegraph lines. In the words of Rudyard Kipling : — " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where blind white sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the... | |
 | Frank Thomas Bullen - 1901 - 410 páginas
...marvellously penetrative way, Kipling has touched this theme while singing the "Song of the English":— " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, the utter dark, where the blind white seasnakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts... | |
 | 1901 - 850 páginas
...through the dark, no sail ever rising to a breeze. Kipling has voiced this idea in one of his poems : " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, the utter dark, where the blind white sea snakes are." Ctobigerîna Bulloides. \ 1 DEEP-SEA LIFE SEEN... | |
 | 1903 - 738 páginas
...deep ultimately obtain their food. As Mr. Kipling, in his "Seven Seas," says of the deep-sea cables : "The wrecks dissolve above us : their dust drops down...utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are." In trying to realize the state of things at the bottom of the deep sea, it is of importance to recognize... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word. THE DEEP-SEA CABLES. [From Tha Seven Seat (1896)] The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down...sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, 4 Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. Here hi the womb of the... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 420 páginas
...admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, THE DEEP-SEA CABLES 1 HE wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from...of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. Here in the womb of the world — here... | |
 | 1900 - 1162 páginas
...wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar — ECLECTIC. VOL. LXXI. 180 Down to the dark, the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are....sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great gray level plains of ooze where the sheM-burr«d cables creep. Here In the womb of the... | |
 | Florence Kimball Russel - 1907 - 358 páginas
...tar-stained and reeking with moisture, I was strongly reminded of Mr. Kipling's "Song of the Cable:" " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where blind white seasnakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the... | |
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