Sea Fever
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
– John Masefield
Why go down? In a short and light-hearted radio piece on NPR, Robert Krulwich discovers a way to make time run more slowly (an attractive idea over a long holiday weekend) – go down to lower elevation! Stronger gravitational field – slower time. He has Brian Greene along to help explain this aspect of Einstein’s General Relativity.
All in good fun.
-cvj
I must go down to the dump again,
To the lonely dump and the sky.
And all I ask is a garbage truck
And a star to steer her by.
These streaming-only shows are a total non-starter for me. If i can’t download it to my Ipod, i don’t have any chance of listening to it.
I’m at a loss why free content is constrained to non-downloadable. Are these people afraid i might give it to someone else? All they’d have to do is tell me not to.
Does this mean i am even older than i am, after living all those years above 7000′?? But then, since i grew up by the seashore (no, not selling sea shells), i must have started off slow enough that, for all the later years of speeding up, it all balances out?? The poem works well when it is chanted like the seachants of those long ago, much, much, slower years.
Clifford just be careful you don’t “slow light down” accidently while you are doing it. 😉
making the holiday drag!
ah….better then a “state of depression” which can seem like a long time, or any “world view” that is surrounded by negative emotions.
Least we forget Einstein’s hot stove analogy?
On the Effects of External Sensory Input on Time Dilation.“ A. Einstein, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Don’t know how scientific this is, but thought it comparative to making the holiday/dream last.:)