"Though for some time I have not spoken of the roaring of the breakers,
and the ceaseless flux and reflux of the waves,
yet they did not for a moment cease to dash and roar,
with such a tumult that, if you had been there,
you could scarcely have heard my voice the while;
and they are dashing and roaring this very moment,
though it may be with less din and violence,
for there the sea never rests.
We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult,
and like Chryses, though in a different mood from him,
we walked silent along the shore of the resounding sea...
though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this."
Henry David Thoreau
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