<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sea and the Hills</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded --<br>The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?<br>The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing --<br>Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing --<br>His Sea in no showing the same his Sea and the same 'neath each showing:<br>His Sea as she slackens or thrills?<br>So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise -- hillmen desire their Hills!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who hath desired the Sea? -- the immense and contemptuous surges?<br>The shudder, the stumble, the swerve, as the star-stabbing bow-sprit emerges?<br>The orderly clouds of the Trades, the ridged, roaring sapphire thereunder --<br>Unheralded cliff-haunting flaws and the headsail's low-volleying thunder --<br>His Sea in no wonder the same his Sea and the same through each wonder:<br>His Sea as she rages or stills?<br>So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise -- hillmen desire their Hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who hath desired the Sea? Her menaces swift as her mercies?<br>The in-rolling walls of the fog and the silver-winged breeze that disperses?<br>The unstable mined berg going South and the calvings and groans that declare it --<br>White water half-guessed overside and the moon breaking timely to bare it --<br>His Sea as his fathers have dared -- his Sea as his children shall dare it:<br>His Sea as she serves him or kills?<br>So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise -- hillmen desire their Hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who hath desired the Sea? Her excellent loneliness rather<br>Than forecourts of kings, and her outermost pits than the streets where men gather<br>Inland, among dust, under trees -- inland where the slayer may slay him --<br>Inland, out of reach of her arms, and the bosom whereon he must lay him<br>His Sea from the first that betrayed -- at the last that shall never betray him:<br>His Sea that his being fulfils?<br>So and no otherwise -- so and no otherwise -- hillmen desire their Hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511100" data-title="The Sea and the Hills de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded -- The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing -- Stark calm on the lap ..."></div> </div> </div>

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