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trumpets and clock and wires, it has been told to me, can call voices out of
the air of the waters to con the ship while her crew sleep. But sleep thou
lightly. It has not yet been told to me that the Sea has ceased to be the Sea.
Here is John Milton writing on the obliquity of the earth's axis:
Some say, he bid his angels turn askance
The poles of earth twice ten degrees or more
From the sun's axle; they with labour push'd
Oblique the centric globe: some say, the sun
Was bid turn reins from th' equinoctial road
Like distant breadth to Taurus with the seven
Atlantic Sisters, and the Spartan Twins,
Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amain
By Leo, and the Virgin, and the Scales,
As deep as Capricorn, to bring in change
Of seasons to each clime.
Charles Kingsley on the constellation Andromeda:
I set thee
High for a star in the heavens, a sign and hope for the seamen.
The wind has shifted; now it blows across
our path and rises from the black west, now
the air has thickened into mist. We cannot
hold out against it, cannot keep on course.
Since Fortune has the better of us now,
Let us obey and turn aside where she
has called. I think the faithful shores of Eryx,
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Rudyard Kipling
"Paradise Lost"
"Andromeda"