The sea, once it casts its spell,
holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Jacques Cousteau

16/06/2012

Sea prayer


Lord of wind and water
Where the ships go down
Reaching to the sunrise,
Lifting like a crow.

Out of the deep-hidden
Wells of night and day --
Mind the great sea-farers
On the open way.

When the last lights darken
On the far coastline,
Wave and port and peril
Sea-Lord -- all are thine.

William Braithwaite