Monday, November 20, 2006

Once More...


S WIND 15 TO 25 KT...RISING TO 25 TO 30 KT.
COMBINED SEAS 12 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 11 SECONDS.
TONIGHT S WIND 30 TO 40 KT...RISING TO 35 TO 45 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
COMBINED SEAS 14 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 9 SECONDS.
BUILDING TO 21 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 9 SECONDS AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Once more onto the beach, dear brothers, once more,
And shred the walls with thine stiletto guns!
In death bombs there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of spindrift blows in our eyes,
Then imitate the action of the toothy shark:
Stiffen your sinews, summon up thy blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage;
And lend yon eye a terrible aspect:
Let us forge through in portage of any headland
Like the hoary elk; let our need o'erwhelm it
As fearlessly as doth a jagged rock
O'erhanging and jutting as confounding base,
Swirled within the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and dive ‘neath the lip
Behold his full height! On, on, you noble hecklers,
Whose blood is thick and fathers wave-proof,
Fathers that like so many salted mariners
Have in these parts from morn till night paddled
And bagged their boards for lack of swell
Dishonor not your women; now attest
That this which you do call corduroy did beget you!
Be faithful now to men of charging blood
And show them how to surf! And you, good riders,
Whose limbs were forged in liquid, show us here
The mettle of your shoulders. Let us swear
That you are worthy of the sea; and doubt not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not sparkle and glint in your eyes.
I see you swim like sharks in the trough,
Straining in upon the drop. The game's afoot!
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
Cry Charge On! Fade not into the pit, mine brethren!'

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