Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Sea Weed
Thanks for thy gift
Of ocean flowers,
Born where the golden drift
Of the slant sunshine falls
Down the green, tremulous walls
Of water, to the cool still coral bowers,
Where, under rainbows of perpetual showers,
God’s gardens of the deep
His patient angels keep;
Gladdening the dim, strange solitude
With fairest forms and hues.
Whittier.—To A. K.