tion>Amelia E. Barr
A Singer from the Sea
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066175399
Table of Contents
WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR ROLAND?
IS THERE ANY SORROW LIKE LOVING?
A SINGER FROM THE SEA.
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CHAPTER I.
DENAS PENELLES.
| “ ‘Tell me, my old friend, tell me why You sit and softly laugh by yourself.’ ‘It is because I am repeating to myself, Write! write Of the valiant strength, The calm, brave bearing Of the sons of the sea.’ ” ––French Rowing Song “And that is why I have written this book Of the things that live in your noble hearts. You are really the authors of it. I have only put into words The frank simplicity of your sailor life.” ––Guillaume de la Laudelle. |
From Padstow Point to Lundy Race is one of the wildest and grandest portions of the Cornish coast, and on it there is always somewhere a tossing sea, a stiff breeze above, and a sucking tide below. Great cliffs hundreds of feet high guard it, and from the top of them the land rolls 2 away in long ridges, brown and bare. These wild and rocky moors, full of pagan altars, stone crosses, and memorials of the Jew, the Phœnician, and the Cornu-British, are the land of our childhood’s fairy-folk––the home of Blunderbore and of Jack the Giant Killer, and the far grander
| “Fable of Bellerus old, And the great vision of the Guarded Mount.” |
But it is the Undercliff which has the perennial charm for humanity, for all along its sloping face there are bewildering hummocks and hollows, checkered with
