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Show SMELL OF THE SEA-By SEA-By Bcrt.cn Braley. Smell of the sea there's a sharp, salty chill to it, Setting your nostrils a-quiver with zest ; Once you have known it, forever you'll thrill of it. Stirred by a tingle of joyous unrest; All the sea's glamorous Bpellfi that enamor us, All the seas's power, tremendous and free. Make the blood surge in us, wake an old urge In us. Brought by the far-carried smell of the sea! Over - the beaches and marches ii blows to us. Smell of the sea and we sniff It and sigh; Suddenly life on the land seems but prose to us Oh, for a ship with the waves shouting shout-ing by! Oh, for the glorious battles with Boreas When v,e faced tempests with trucu lent glee, IIfw all thai wonderful, stormy and thunderfu) Memory comes with the smell of the sea! Smell of the Bea there are odore more savory. Perfume of gardens or haylields in June, But there is none that ran hold you In slavery Like the scent blown over headland and dune. Salt is the sting of it, ah. as I sing ol It There's an enchantment 1 never shall flee. Down far and deep in me olden dreams leap In me I'm in the spell of the smell of the sea! (Copyright, 1922. NEA Service) |