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 McFee - 1921 - 260 páginas
...greatest wonder of the deep—the seaman. And when the propeller drops away, as it does sometimes—drops "down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are''—there goes out from that ship all life, all motion. Even as the mass of metal plunges downward... | |
| William McFee - 1921 - 258 páginas
...greatest wonder of the deep—the seaman. And when the propeller drops away, as it does sometimes—drops "down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are"—there goes out from that ship all life, all motion. Even as the mass of metal plunges downward... | |
| Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1923 - 240 páginas
...'perceptible to us without instruments of precision. At the bottom of the sea there is no sound — There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep. The world down there is... | |
| Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1924 - 750 páginas
...fragments, Following the stately and rapid Ship — in the wake following. WALT WHITMAN 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 shellburred cables creep. Here in the womb of the world — here... | |
| Arthur Victor Trocke Wakely - 1924 - 208 páginas
...TYPICAL HALF-TRACK, VEHICLE — I-TON LOAD. MAKES ITS OWN ROAD. CHAPTER VIII SEA CABLES AND LAND LINES " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where blind sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great... | |
| Arthur Victor Trocke Wakely - 1924 - 202 páginas
...other purposes in eir introduction as IS > on a commercial CHAPTER VIII SEA CABLES AND LAND LINES " The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down...afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where blind sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1926 - 808 páginas
...admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' bought it fair! THE DEEP-SEA CABLES HTHE wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from...to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes arc. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1927 - 892 páginas
...admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' bought it fair! THE DEEP-SEA CABLES TTHE 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... | |
| Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - 1927 - 540 páginas
...deep«sea cables in which we have drawn for us a picture of the dark, mysterious depths of ocean'where the blind white, seasnakes are: "There is no sound,...of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell«burred cables creep," — a picture so intensely felt that... | |
| 1899 - 874 páginas
...marvelously 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 sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts... | |
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