Show the ocean in a storm there is iao grander sight than a storm anthe on the ocean nor one that offers so great a contrast to the laugh laud ing blue waters in their gentler moods thelea the sea that but yesterday to toyed and splashed its harmless waves yin ih play against the vessels side today dull and somber heaves with fury ita Its seething masses in awful power gleaming white crests like the red caps of anarchy excite the rebellions subjects ot old ocean to fury and they ey rush about dull gray and forbidding terrible in their resist less might reflecting in the great troughs and swelling heights the rase ra of the contending skies above it atia 10 8 ag n exhilarating sensation to stand on the bow of a bounding vessel as it rises to surmount some great billow dashes ardashes or in it a mass of foam through the heart of an opposing sea ane pulse will quicken the breast wl will U heave and high thoughts Vs and noble impulses be born in the presence of the grei greatest test of the manifestations of almighty power 6 it seems to me that when ones time comes to die a death in the midst of dashing waters and shrieking winds a death in the very presence of natures god would be a grand end a death worthy of a man forest and stream |