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Letter "N" » Navigation
"O pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep."
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
About: Navigation
"How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would
happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it."
Author: Bede "The Venerable"
About: Navigation
"O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!"
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Navigation
"Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm."
Author: George Canning
About: Navigation
"And as great seamen, using all their wealth
And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths,
In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,
To put a girdle round about the world."
Author: George Chapman
About: Navigation
"A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sails,
And bends the gallant mast!
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While, like the eagle free,
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England in the lee."
Author: Allan Cunningham
About: Navigation
"Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the fields of air."
Author: Erasmus Darwin
About: Navigation
"For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack."
Author: Charles Dibdin
About: Navigation
"There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack."
Author: Charles Dibdin
About: Navigation
"Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands,
And, with his compass, measures seas and lands."
Author: John Dryden
About: Navigation
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