We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. (Rudyard Kipling)

We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead.

Rudyard Kipling

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