Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep,
Sailor! who dost thy vigil keep—
Off the Cape of Storms dost musing sweep
Over monstrous waves that curl and comb;
Of thee we think when here from brink
We blow the mead in bubbling foam.

Of thee we think, in a ring we link;
To the shearer of ocean's fleece we drink,
And the Meteor rolling home.

—Herman Melville, “To the Master of the Meteor”

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From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

On Philosophy, History, and Literature
Lectures at the Worker Education School and the Independent College,
Berlin, 1901–1905
Author’s summary and summaries of 34 lectures, 1901–1905;
with reports on Rudolf Steiner’s activity in the
“Giordano Bruno Association,” 1902 (CW 51)
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