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“

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin—his control / Stops with the shore.

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— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818)

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Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 179.