[BNP/E3, 49A1 – 3]

04 – June. 28

July. 5

Oh, the sea!

In its fury and its glee,

In its moving and its sleeping,

In its laughter and its weeping,

{…}

1904

With its dimming, chiming, chewing,

And its numbers never grown

With the music of its shinning

And the babbling of its wave

_______

Hail, thou sea!

How thy fury laketh me,

Let it thunder, let it roar

Oer the panic-stricken shore

Let it rush and let it dash

Oer the straining, bowing decks,

Thunder and crash

Over the horror of its wrecks.

How I the sea’s unswerving sight 

I’d tear the world apart in frantic raging might.

___

Soft is the sea!

How sweet in fulsome glee!

With its waters slowly trifling.

With its waters supplies, riffling,

{…}

[3v]

A Problem with a Key.

Ode to the Sea

Heat given up by Copper = M x C x (T-t’)

taken up by Water = m x (t’-t0)

Calorimeter = m’ (t’-t0) x C 

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