Ancient Sea Kings

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    “The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The sea is calm to-night.
    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    Upon the straits;—”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
    And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)