The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.


The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)


The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary...

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary...

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary...

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary...