1875.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by


JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.,


In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.





PREFACE.


The poem whose name gives title to this little volume, was published
in outline in the winter of 1869, and now appears for the first time
as completed. _The sea,_ as a picture of life, has been celebrated by
the poetic thought of all ages, and the author will therefore hardly
hope to offer much that is new in the following verses. His only
excuse for so worn a theme is, that the world still loves the
picture, and that each generation can, at best, but reset the old
jewels of the past.