Kitty wrote: ↑October 15th, 2018, 1:16 am
Still, interesting texts. I remember this English poem "Thanatos, thanatos" (the sea, the sea) which was about this incident as well, if I'm not mistaken.
That made me interested enough to google the title and I found this, which is a very cool poem:
The Sea! The Sea!
by Dowell O'Reilly
" The Sea! The Sea! " loud shout ten thousand men,
Dark Persia's weary sands they heed no more,
But down the steep to where the surges roar,
In weeping crowds they rush past Xenophon.
Love's sharp cry thrilled them to the ocean, when
The waves — that oft perchance had lapped before
In caves soft murmuring on the Attic shore
— Sobbed in the hearts of Attic exiles then.
So with Life's serried ranks I struggle through
The sterile wilderness of things that be
Till clear in front lies Death's unfathomed blue,
With tears of love I shout " The Sea! The Sea! "
And listening — hold my breath — to catch the true
Deep breaking thunders of Eternity.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/sea-sea-2
He was Australian, 1865-1923 so SHOULD be safely in PD for anyone wanting to record the poem. Unfortunately, his books published in his lifetime are quite rare -- he was disappointed with sales of his two poetry volumes and apparently destroyed most of the copies! Nothing on PG or Hathi Trust that includes his poems (short stories, tho) and only a 1924 "collected works" that includes this poem on Internet Archive -- so that won't be PD for 2 more years in the US!
Not sure if Poetry Nook is acceptable as a source. Since he died in 1923 I'm very sure the poem was published somewhere before that, but the only text in a known-to-be-accepted source is that 1924 collected works book on IA.
But as I understand it, none of this matters in life +50/70 year countries and it's totally PD for y'all, right?
Colleen