The Sunday Oregonian., August 10, 1902, PART FOUR, Page 30, Image 30

THE M AMeH ESTE-R SHIP 67WNAL
ONE OF THE GREAT TRADE ROUTES OF-THE
AMERICAN INVASION .
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MANCHESTER, England, July 15.
(Special correspondence.) I Tiave
come here to give you the latest
and newest Information ahout the, Man
chester ship canal. It Is rumored that
Jw Plerpont Morgan and Ills associates
have bought a controlling Interest In It,
and that they will shortly put on a new
line of- steamers to trade between Man
chester and the United States. There is
no doubt but that Morgan's London bank
owns a large amount of the shares. It
took them when the canal -was begun
and has held them ever since. If these
rumors are correct the canal will soon be
the chief route for the entrance of our
goods Into this busiest part of the United
Kingdom, and Manchester -will become
a headquarters of the American Invasion.
Indeed, the city already receives steam
ers from New York. Philadelphia. Balti
more, Galveston and New Orleans. Hun
dreds of thousands of cotton bales from
our Southern States are here brought via
the canal, to be transferred to the mills;
an enormous grain elex-ator has sprung up
for the storage of American wheat, and
I find that the -warehouses along the Man
chester docks are already filled with all
sorts of American goods.
The Seaport of England's -Heart.
But first let me tell you something
about this great port, which the "Eng
lish have created in the very heart of
their country. Manchester Is far back
from the sea. It Is one of the busiest
cities of the world, and the country sur
rounding It Is a vast beehive of work. In
passing over the railroads to and from
It in every direction you ride through
groves of smokestacks, and It Is Impos
cible to get away from the dense smoke
which pours forth from the foundries,
factories and mlhs which dot the land
scape. Including its sister city, Salford, the
place has now about 800,000 population, and
the manufacturing towns nearby are so
close together that 2,000,000 people live
within carting distance of the Manchester
docks. This means that goods brought
here on the canal can be carried by horses
to the homes and factories of these 2,000,
000 people.
Nearby are other Industrial centers,
which make all sorts of products for homo
trade and export. Sheffield, with its cut
lery, crunworks and furnaces for making
Iron and steel, Is but an hour away by
train, and the woolen center of Leeds
Is almost as near. Altogether Manches
ter forms the nearest port for a popu
lation of about 8,000,000, and its people esti
mate that they can land ordinary goods
by means of their canal at a saving of 51
per ton on the Inland transport over the
same goods landed at Liverpool. The
canal people havo prepared estimates of
the actual cost of distributing goods
throughout this part of England, and it
will pay American shippers to investigate
the advantages of sending their exports
hy the canal almost direct to the fac
tories. Manchester's Misrhty Wntervrny.
I have spent some days in going over the
canal and in looking through the vast
warehouses and buildings which have
grown up about It. It Is one of the won
ers of modern engineering, and as a long
time investment it will probably be a suc
cess, although the present generation and
perhaps the next cannot expect to have
dividends out of it. The cost of,the un
dertaking has been enormous. At the start
It was thought that the canal could be
constructed for $40,000,000. but when com
pleted It was found to have cost $75,000,000.
Before It was built Manchester was on
the down grade. Its factories and ware
houses were falling, and some of the great
cat of Its1 industrial Institutions were
transferring their plants and business to
Glasgow, where they could havo better
shipping facilities. Liverpool was stead
ily gaining, and Manchester steadily de
clining, the former city charged what tolls
It pleased on goods passing through to the
Manchester region, and the railroads col
lected enormous freight rates.
How the Canal Was Bnllt.
As a result the Manchester manufactur
Ers saw ruin staring them In the face.
CThev came together, planned this ship
canal, and raised the money to build it.
They got the city corporation of Manches
ter to back them to the extent of $25,000.
000; they put their hands Into their own
pockets and gave millions more, and with
in a short time they had an army of la
borers at work larger than that which
Xenophon led on his march to the sea.
When In full swing their army consisted
Of 17.000 men, divided into eight companies,
tfllcered by picked experts, each digging
.ct a section about four miles in length.
This army had its camps in each section.
l3ts tents were wooden houses, made from
dumber brought from the United States,
icnd as many of the workmen had. their
wives and families, there was a busy
Mown along the whole line of the canal.
No one can appreciate the extent of the
work without going over the canal. It Is
miles long. 26 feet deep, and at the
"bottom 120 feet wide. If you can imagine
ta cellar so deep that you could drop a two
jstory house within it and have the roof
Ibelow the surface, so wide that the aver
age city lot could be laid out crosswise
tacross the bottom, and so long that it
iwould take a railroad train at a good
HIS LODE
THE office of the Ocean Hotel at Sea
side resounded with the irrespon
sible laughter of a crowd of young
jnen. The testimony to the presence of
wide-awake and joyous mankind echoed
through the grove of stunted pine and
overrode the drowsy snore of the surf
breaking on the beach, deserted now and
lying like a whitewashed deadline between
the sentinel ocean and the land,. of an
unruly people.
It was a Sunday night The crowd of
excursionists was gone; the booths that
had lined every path with enticing wares
"were shuttered and only the remnants of
feasts whose attendant laughter was van
ished, the half-obliterated traces In the
sand of feet that had wandered delight
fully, and the little heaps that marked the
fort, now abandoned, around which some
childish conllict had raged, remained to
oear glaring witness to the sky that be
fore the shadow of night there had ebbed
a boisterous human tide.
Along the beach a belated man was
walking. His evening dress was so dis
tinctly out of place In the seclusion of
nature that he was consciously hastening
his pace the sooner to merge himself with
men.
As he hastened along over the sand he
heard the laughter emanating from the
Ocean Hotel. It awakened his spirits,
which were uncomfortably dulled by the
monotone of the surf and the windy sol
itude. His face, white and smooth, gave
the impression of a hale and carefully
tended old age. Though his step was hur
ried, there was no awkwardness or lack
of strength; he moved as does a man who
Is still master of his limbs, and an ob
server might have watched a smile flush
his clear cheeks into the ruddiness of
youth. The cause of this rejuvenescence
of expression lay, not in the virginal
speed an hour to run from one end of It
to me oiner, you may have some Idea of
iins enormous mtch wnicn the Manchester
1.VUJIJW iiuvc- uug irum ineir cuy 10 me sea.
A part of the canal was alone
long the course
of the little River Irwell, but much of It
had to be dug out of the solid rock. The
excavation necessary was half as great
as that required for the Suez Canal, and
most of it much more difficult. Eight
miles of embankment and sea walls had to
be erected along the foreshore of the Mer
sey, and upon the whole canal 70)000,000
bricks and .220,000,000 cubic yards of ma
sonry were constructed.
Five sets of locks were put In. each big
enough to admit an Atlantic liner, and
these, by means of grent steol sluice gates,
raise and lower the ships to the height or
depth of CO feet. There are. In short, from
Manchester to the sea. five mighty steps,
each 12 feet high, which the ships have
to climb in coming up the canal.
The Manchester Socki.
I was surprised at the extent of the Man
chester docks. It seems strange to see all
the surroundings of one of the largest sea
ports right In the heart of a rich manufac
turing and agricultural country. The
docks are vats of water walled with ma
sonry, and ' surrounded withgreat ware
houses, which are 'equipped "with thej
finest of modern machinery. The water
space within them covers 256 acres, and the
total length of the quays about them is
more than 5 miles. In one of the docks
three Atlantic liners have been berthed
simultaneously at the same quay, and
during my visit yesterday I saw a ship
from Bombay, one from Australia and
one from Galveston loading and unloading
goods almost side by side. Along the
docks railways run, and the company has
100 miles of track connected with the ca
nal, and there are more than 40 trains
dally, carrying goods In and out the docks.
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STAR BY JOHN FLEMING WILSON
freshness of his environment, but Jn the
swift anticipation of being again the lead
er among a company. The young men's
voices called to him to come and dom
inate their exuberance with his pro
ficiency. ,
He turned Into the grovo and slackened
his pace. The light from the open door
way accentuating his well-bred features,
his quiet, almost noble carriage, the cor
rectness of his demeanor, received him
and framed him kindly.
When he stepped briskly among them
the half-score of young fellows greeted
him hilariously. He did not know the
face of one of them, but the atmosphere
was familiar, and he responded pleasant
ly. At the sound of his modulated tones
a detached group broke irom around an
old man In the rough garb of a seafarer.
His blinking eyes followed them as they
quickly formed a circle about the new"
comer. "It's a late hour for an old gentleman to
he out," said one with cheerful Impu
dence. The man smiled benignantly. "You col
lege fellows think a man with gray hair
is out of the world."
Two or three broke out Into a murmur
of appreciation. "So you recognize us eol
lege men at sight?" said one condescend
ingly. "The earmarks are unmistakable, even
to an untrained eye," he answered, un
ruffled. "I wonder now," Interposed another, "if
you have as good an eye for cigars?"
The hint was smilingly accepted and a
well-filled case produced. A little less
boisterously the young fellows quizzed
tnelr new companion. They propounded
riddles, to answer which meant the Incur
ring of ridicule. They tenderly Inquired
It- was In the canal comnnnr'n item
launch that I was taken from dock to
aoch, ana irom warehouse to warehouse,
. ana it was with a canal officer that I
later on took a trip down the canal f rc
Manchester to the sen. nn tha "nnv r
Lelnster," bound for Ireland. Our captain
of the Lelnster was a jolly old sea, dog
who trembled like a leaf as we were
photographed standing on deck going
own tne canal.
I am surprised at the traffic which this
port already has with the United States.
In every warehouse I found American
goodu and in one especially, known as
the New York warehouse, I saw thou
sands of bales of cotton, which had Just
come from Galveston, great boxes of ma
chinery for the Westinghouscr electric
works, crates of American desks and
great cares of hams, bacon and lard. On
the top of another warehouse, four stories
high, I took photographs of a thousand
odd barrels of resin which had just come
from the pine lands of Georgia and South
Carolina, and at the grain elevator I aw
a ship unloading wheat from Phila
delphia. This elevator Is of American construc
tion, having been built by Messrs. John &
Metcalf & Co of Chicago. It has a
storage capacity of 40,000 ton3 of grain,
or 1,500,000 bushels of wheat, and In it
there are 226 bins or pits, the largest of
TheSuining fieyueduot of
wmcn nolds as much as 305 toiv Tii
elevator is right on the canal, and the
grain Is taken directly from the ship
through a marine leg, which works by
revolving buckets on an endless chain,
lifts the grain up Into a tower by the
boat and drops It upon a wide india-rubber
belt, which carries it into the elevator
and up Into the bins. There arc also
pipes which do the same work by means
of suction, so that a shipload of wheat
can be discharged within a few hours.
The machinery will take 50). tons from
the steamer hold Into the elevator In one
about his lungs, playfully poked him In
the stomach and rudely thumped him on
the back to see If his heart was sound.
"You seem pretty fit for an old chap,"
was their conclusion. "Now have you got
any gcod excuse for living?"
-"What do you call a good excuse?" he
demanded with perfect good-humor.
"Can you run a mile?"
"Can you Jump a fence?"
"Do you like the girls?"
"Can you make your own living?"
Their questions rang out In challenge,
and the elderly aristocrat met them fairly.
His wit won their attention, and before
they were aware of It he was cross-examining
them. They found to their, discom
fiture that he was quite modern. Yet
Iheir pride would suffer them to make no
admission except, "You must be a col
lege man?"
"I am," he replied, kindling as old mem
ories flooded over him. "And perhaps I've
done more to earn the title than you
youngsters."
There was silence and he went on, "I
learned Greek when I was too poor to
buy a book, and my teacher was poorer
than myself. I remember how he would
write out my lesson In the duat of the
street, with his cane, and I learned It
between the passings of teams. I don't
believe l'e evr quite mastered some
things about Greek Just because a team
unluckily drove by and smudged it."
They gazed at the correctness of his
attire, at the softness of his hands, at the
stralghtness of his figure and kept re
spectfully silent. As he finished his re
cital a waggish youth tapped him on the
shoulder. "That's good, sir; but what
have you done since to Justify Providence
In keeping you alive? What great thing
havo you done? Speak up sir; this
the BrJd&cuatc &mt
hour. It Welcha the ernin nt fho -anttaVv
edge, and later on weighs it again when
It Is in the sacks ready to be loaded upon
the carts or barges by which It Is taken
over the country.
During my visit to the elevator, and,
indeed, throughout the trip, I was accom
panied by Mr. A. Joynson. of the Man
chester Canal Comrany. He tells me that
the grain Imports have eteadily Increased
since this elevator was finished, and that
they r.ow amount to about 150,000 tons an
nualls. During the first six months of
this year S5.000 tons of grain have 'been
Is your day of Judgment." With
a subtle vanity that only added
value to his words he recited modestly
hut with well-turned phrases of experi
ence his triumphs. Th'ey listened while
he told them almost hesitatingly of suc
cesses In surgeryj of lives saved, of bene
fits" to the human race; wondering; as ho
obliterated each achievement in the shad
ow of a greater.
As he progressed a new auditor hov
ered on the outside of the circle. It was
the weather-beaten, time-worn relic from
the sea who had first engaged their Jest
ing attention. As the quiet, humorous,
well-told narrative flowed smoothly on,
this ancient toller fluttered volcelessly
about, painfully strivin- to drag from
the recesses of his own memory some
deed of worth to match this triumphant
Justification of a life. But he achieved
nothing but the amused glances of the
speaker and his auditors.
"You've taught us a lesson, sir," said
one of the young men, finally. "If we
fellows can only do as well, we can die all
right."
The sober tone demanded an antidote,
and another turned to the tottering figure
outside the close-drawi circle and cried.
"It's up to you, daddy. ' What are you
going to plead at the Judgment seat?"
The old man turned bewildered eyes up
on the kindly face of the coeval. He
struggled to clutch and bring forward
some deed that would be his Justification
In the humorously Inquisitive eyes of these
young men. His awkward thoughts ran
on nights of peril In strange seas, on
hours when he had driven back death.
But he could find no plea there; he had
done his duty; that was all. On his'
leaving breast lay a medal for saving of
life. JIls hand closed on It with longing,
but he felt its insufficiency.
Noting his troubled face the other held
out a slim, smooth hand, and said reas
suringly: "Honest toll has been your lot.
my friend, and that's enouch."
The dilapidated mariner shook his head.
received into the eIeator. and the most
of this came from the United States.
He tells me that the shipping from the
United States Is steadily Increasing. Reg
ular steamers have been run here for
years frcn New York, Savannah, New
Orleans and Galveston, and there have
been occasional sailings from Baltimore,
Newport News. Charleston, Brunswick.
Mobile and Pensacola. Cattle are now
brought here from Philadelphia, and in
the near f future there will be a direct
steamship jlne from Chicago to Manches
ter by way of the St. Lawrence, the TVcl-
In the vista of his life surely he could
discover some dominant thing that would
stand unshaken even before the Judg
ment seat. Time and again words bub
bled to his Hps. only to ebb away darkly.
The perspiration stood out thickly on
his shriveled vlsace, and the young fel
lows laughed delightedly. "Come, old
boy, speak up. What's your life been
good for?"
The brutality of the question crushed
all speech deep Into a swelling breast.
With the eyes of a hunted beast he strove
to find some outward path, some warranty
for his existence. To his shackled mind It
seemed that this was an lnoulsltlon by
his own soul and that the answer must
be perfect and sufficient.
His despair was breeding an Impotent
hatred, of the smiling face before him
and Us sleek hair. His own hands mocked
him with their departed strength.
The penetrating query came again:
"What's your plea, old man? What shall
you say before the Judgment Scat?"
His quivering Hps slackened and his
deeply lined face withered. The man
opposite him had lived In prosperity to
Justify himself with ease; he himself had,
lived by bitter effort to fall of any ex
cuse. Tho group, now frankly Inquisitive and
scenting a new and piquant Jest, seemed
smiling In derisive mockery upon him. And
the old man's stubborn soul still fought
stoutly. He knew his life had not been
In vain. But what should he say? "What
was his-salvation?
The old habit of the seafarer asserted
itself. The other had sailed along the
varied, populous coast of life, careless of
compass, by the dead-reckoning of expe
rience. But he, a mariner of the deep,
unmarked ocean, had sailed In seas where
the excellent sky shines In strange splen
dor or the dark tempest closes down be
wllderlngly. Though he could describe his
course by no landmarks familiar and strik
ing to the human eye, he was certain of his
unswerving aim. And now he turned to :
land Canal and the Great Lakes. Theso
snips will bring cargoes of lumber and
provisions, ana a regular service
prooaDiy De maintained.
Canada and the West Indies.
Canada already has a line of largo
steamers to Manchester, which make reg
ular trips during the Summer. These
ships bring both lumber and cattle. Some
of them are of over 8,000 tons, having ac
commodation for 700 live beeves.
There Is a good prospect for a' fruit
trade between Manchester and the West
Indies. Within the las few months
bananas have been brought here from
Jamaica and a regular banana service is
to bo Instituted which will supply the
Midlands with this fruit, and this serv
ice may in the future be extended to
Porto Rico and Cuba. The fruit com
panies here have bought three steamers
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Company and will run them to Jamaica.
that guide that had led him through his
weary way. He knew his haven as the
blind needle knows the pole.
In. the glare of the hotel office he faced
his Judges triumphantly. The faded Hps
were firm and his voice carried a note of
the echoing thunder of the shoreless main.
He flung his Justification before them and
met the eyes of the other man of years In
stern equality: "She loved me till she
died."
SUMMER DOLLHOUSES.
Dellshtfcl Occupation for Little
Girls During: Vacation Days.
Summer days are Ideal ones for doll
houses. Set In a cool spot under the trees,
on days too warm to admit of active play,
they make the happiest of all occupations
for little girls. The Mothers' Journal tells
how to make the prettiest kind of play
houses out of boxes. The boxes are open
in front of course. Tall boxes have a
tihelf half way up, dividing them Into first
and second stories, and then there are
partitions through the center, making
two rooms on each floor. A stairway
leads from the first floor to the second;
the walls are papered, the floors stained,
rugs laid, and shades and lace curtains
placed at the windows. The bedrooms
have the neatest and whitest of beds,
dressing tables, bureaus and washstands,
with cretonne and murfln bureau scarf,
pin cushion nnd toilet articles all com
plete. In the parlor arc piano, center ta
ble, chairs and sofa, and a complete set
of cooking utensils hangs over the kitchen
stove. There are pictures on all the walls.
Such a dollhouse costs a good deal In
time and labor, but little In money. A
common goods box serves as the founda
tion, and a papa or big brother who is
handy with tools can put in stairs,
shelves and partitions without trouble,
and until she has started on It the mother
or big sister will not know how the fasci
nation of copying a house In miniature
grows on one.
A doll's schoolhouse, with desks and
blackboards, is among endless variations
that can he planned. Countless original
features will sugssst themselves to an
i
Each boat will bring 40,000 Punches of
bananas.
Among the recent arrivals are two
.ships from the Black Sea with 7000 tons
of Indian corn, the sailing vessel
Mlltlades from San Francisco with U.000
quarters of barley and wheat and Clampa
of Tacoma with 2500 tons of wheat from
our great Northwest.
The traffic of the canal Is steadily
growing. Within the last six months the
revenue has Increased to the amount
of $125,000. and there has been a steady
growth in the business since the begin
ning. The traffic of, the present year will
probably exceed 3.000.000 tons and will be
greater than that of any year of the
past.
In my ride up the canal I passed cotton
ships from America and from Egypt
The American imports up to the middle
of last April were almost 400,000 bales and
the Egyptian about one-fourth that num
ber. At the lumber docks I saw a ship
from Mobile unloading a cargo of pitch
pin. and at the same wharf was one
similarly loaded ' from Pensacola. There
were great tank steamers from the Rus
sian oil-fields at the Russian oil tank3
on the right bank of the canal, and on
the left other tank steamers discharging
American petroleum. I passed the freez
ing works where the New Zealand ships
land their frozen mutton in mi- n
the Duke of Lelnster and also the great
cattle sheds and abattoirs belonging to
the Manchester corporation, of which I
may speak further In another letter.
Some Wonders or the Caaal.
The ride down the canal was one of
greatest interest. The canal company
owns much of tha land along the way,
and his Is of such a nature that there
could be an almost contlnuos dock from
ene end of It to the other. Leaving Man
chester you sail by the great ware
houses and factories on the canal's bank.
Now you are passing through fields as
rich as any In old England. They are
bounded by hedges and upon the green
grass fat cattle are feeding. Cheshire
county on your left Is one of the richest
dairy counties of the United Kingdom,
and Lancashire on your right is the
busiest manufacturing country of the
whole world. We saw large manufac
turing towns at every few miles and
often passed other steamers coming up
to the city. The locks were easily and
quickly gone through; the sluice gates
open and shut automatically and the
steamer drops 12 feet within less than half
as many minutes.
Cnrvlnsr Bridges.
We steamed under great railroad bridges
so high above the canal that the masts of
the ships do not touch them as they pass
on below. These bridges were erected at
an Immense cost by the canal company.
The railroad companies were opposed to
the enterprise, as they thought it would
cut down their traffic between Liverpool
and Manchester, so they forced the canal
people to not only build the bridges, but
to raise the railroads for several miles on
each side of the canal, so that the slope
of the road crossing the canal might not
be steep.
The most surprising bridge on the canal,
however, Is one where the Bridgewater
canal crosses the Manchester ship canal.
The Bridgewater canal ha3 for years done
a large business between Manchester and
Liverpool. It was bought by the Manches
ter company at the time they began the
ship canal, and It was then making a profit
of something like $100,000 a year. It Is
still In use, and It carries considerable
freight. The line of this canal was right
across the route necessary to the Man
chester ship canal, and at first It seemed
as though the construction of the latter
would necessitate Its destruction.
This was objected to. and the engineers
solved the problem by making a swinging
aqueduct bridge at the crossing. This
bridge can be closed with the water, and
even with the boats in it. and by machin
ery so moved around to the side that the
chips can pass through In the greater
canai aeiow. hen they have passed the
bridge moves back into place and the
water flows on undisturbed. The aque
duct, with the water In it. weighs 1400
tons, and it Is moved as easily as though
it weighed les3 than 14 pounds. It can be
swung In a couple of minutes so that the
barges of the old canal are almost unhin
dered by the mighty ships of the new.
England's Blgr Canal System.
This Bridgewater canal Is only one of a
large numbesr of waterways which dis
tribute freight to all parts of England. We
are prone to look upon this as a railroad
country. It Is a canal country as well.
The United Kingdom has altogether 3907
miles of canals, and of these about 3500
belong to England and Wales. More than
one-third of the whole are the property
of the railways, the others being man
aged by private corporations. Many of
the canals are connected with London,
one Joln3 Liverpool and Birmingham, oth
ers tap the country about Leeds, and
others aro found In the district of Shef
field. Ireland has about 500 miles of ca
nals, and Scotland 70 miles.
Upon theso waterways about 40,000,000
tons of freight are annually carried at a
cost of more than $10,000,000. They are
said to pay with horses as their motive
power, and It Is now proposed to run
them by electricity, and I understand that
some of our American capitalists hav
been looking Into this transformaton as a
field for profitable investment.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
(Copyrighted. 1002.)
original mind. Almost every piece of fur
niture to be found In a grown-up house
can be purchased In doll miniature for a
few cents, and, now that so many big
brothers do bench work and learn to
operate circular saws In manual training
classes, they can be pressed Into the doll
cabinet business. Another way to make
small girls happy for the Summer Is to let
them set up housekeeping In a piano box,
with furniture halt way between grown
up belongings and doll things. There la
and inexhaustible Interest to the Juvenile
mind, both masculine and feminine, but
particularly the latter. In "playing house"
and the variations the children can In
troduce upon this theme are legion.
Grown ups can even catch the fever,
when they are pure of heart and uncon
ventional of mind; witness the longings ot
Elizabeth to have a little cottage out in
the park. Just big enough for her and one
of the babies to get into, where they
might go and stay all night, and have the
other two babies come and take tea with
them.
Waiting.
Serene, I fold my hands and watt.
Kor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate.
For lo! my own eball come to me.
I stay my baste. I make delays.
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways.
And what Is mine shall know my face
Asleep, awake, by night or day.
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
"What matter If I stand alone?
I wait with Joy the coming years:
My heart shall reap where It has sown.
( And garner up Its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs In yonder height;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high.
Can keep my own" away from me.
John Burroughs