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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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And
the
sea-bottom,
also,
has
its
zones,
at
different
depths,
and
its
peculiar
forms
in
peculiar
spots,
affected
by
the
currents
and
the
nature
of
the
ground,
the
riches
of
which
have
to
be
seen,
alas!
rather
by
the
imagination
than
the
eye;
for
such
spoonfuls
of
the
treasure
as
the
dredge
brings
up
to
us,
come
too
often
rolled
and
battered,
torn
from
their
sites
and
contracted
by
fear,
mere
hints
to
us
of
what
the
populous
reality
below
is
like.
Often,
standing
on
the
shore
at
low
tide,
has
one
longed
to
walk
on
and
in
under
the
waves,
as
the
water-ousel
does
in
the
pools
of
the
mountain
burn,
and
see
it
all
but
for
a
moment;
and
a
solemn
beauty
and
meaning
has
invested
the
old
Greek
fable
of
Glaucus
the
fisherman:
how
eating
of
the
herb
which
gave
his
fish
strength
to
leap
back
into
their
native
element,
he
was
seized
on
the
spot
with
a
strange
longing
to
follow
them
under
the
waves,
and
became
for
ever
a
companion
of
the
fair
semi-human
forms
with
which
the
Hellenic
poets
peopled
their
sunny
bays
and
firths,
feeding
“silent
flocks”
far
below
on
the
green
Zostera
beds,
or
basking
with
them
on
the
sunny
ledges
in
the
summer
noon,
or
wandering
in
the
still
bays
on
sultry
nights
amid
the
choir
of
Amphitrite
and
her
sea-nymphs:—
“Joining
the
bliss
of
the
gods,
as
they
waken
the
coves
with
their
laughter,”
in
nightly
revels,
whereof
one
has
sung,—
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