 Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. A man dies on shore ; his body remains with his friends, and " the mourners go about the streets ; " but when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 541841Full view - About this book
 | Don Donaldson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 360 pages
...Dana told of the accidental drowning at sea of a shipmate. "Death is at all times solemn," said Dana, "but never so much so as at sea. A man dies on shore, his body remains with his friends... ..You follow his body to the grave and a stone marks the spot. But at sea, the man is near you —... | |
 | Gerry Max - Social Science - 2007 - 320 pages
...and lost heroes living there. "Death is at all times solemn," wrote Richard Henry Dana aboard ship, "but never so much so as at sea.... A man dies on shore — you follow his body to the grave, and a stone marks the spot ... but at sea, the man is near you—... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1875 - 542 pages
...Dana, JTr.9 1815-* (Manual, p. 504.) From fc' Two years before the Mast.11 2.28. Loss OF A MAK AT SEA. DEATH is at all times solemn, but never so much so...with his friends, and " the mourners go about the streets;'7 but when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and... | |
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