R. C. Materston.

THALATTA:

A

BOOK FOR THE SEA-SIDE.

'As soon as the men who were in the vanguard had climbed
the hill and beheld the Sea, they gave a great shout,
ing out, "Thalatta! Thalatta!""

cry-

Xenophon's Expedition of Cyrus, iv. 7.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

THURSTON, TORRY, AND EMERSON, PRINTERS.

God's own profound

Was above me, and round me the mountains,

And under, the sea;

And within me, my heart, to bear witness

What was and shall be.

BROWNING.

How sweet it were

To hear each other's whispered specch;

Eating the Lotos day by day,

To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
And tender curving lines of creamy spray.
To lend our hearts and spirits wholly

To the influence of mild-minded melancholy
To muse and brood, and live again in memory.
TENNYSON.

That hears all night

The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.

And the great sea-waves below,

Pulse o' the midnight, beating slow.

WHITTIER.

TENNYSON.