James Gates Percival Quote

The water is calm and still below,
For the winds and waves are absent there,
And the sands are bright as the stars that glow
In the motionless fields of upper air.


The coral Grove, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields ...

The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields ...

The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields ...

The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields ...