A
SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.
The Lady Moon is my lover, My friends are the oceans four, The heavens have roofed me over, And the dawn is my golden door I would liefer follow the condor Or the
seagull, soaring from ken, Than bury my godhead yonder In the dust of the whirl of men.
But John Bunsby believed in the Tankadere, which rode on the waves like a
seagull; and perhaps he was not wrong.
The mildness of the evening, the sea breezes, so dear to contemplative minds, setting in from the east and blowing in delicious gusts; then, in the distance, the black outline of the yacht with its rigging traced upon the empurpled background of the sky -- while, dotting the horizon, might be seen, here and there, vessels with their trimmed sails, like the wings of a
seagull about to plunge; such a spectacle indeed well merited admiration.
Her father was organist at your own church, and a hard struggle he must have had of it, with an absentee landlord, and a congregation of seagulls, I should think."
About their heads the seagulls whirled and shrieked.
"I can show you," she said, "where the seagulls build, and I can tell you the very spot in the sea where the sun goes down night after night.
"There are some baby seagulls in one of the nests, but I daren't go very near for the mother bird is so strong.
careful heaper-up of treasure, was it worth while to labor to sweeten and gild life, to come upon a desert shore, surrounded by the cries of
seagulls, and lay thyself, with broken bones, beneath a torpid stone?
"There's no one here to see me--the
seagulls won't carry tales of the matter.
"At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; {30} moreover there was a bard with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife; but when heaven had counselled her destruction, Aegisthus carried this bard off to a desert island and left him there for crows and
seagulls to batten upon--after which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus.
Seawards there was no sail or sign of life save a few
seagulls: and even they looked like the last snowflakes, and seemed to float rather than fly.