QUOTE : The guide–book warmly recommends the seashore when the wind is in the east (which it was) as the quickest and firmest route from Göhren to Thiessow; but I chose rather to take the road over the plain because there was a poem in the guide–book about the way along the shore, and the guide–book said it described it extremely well, and I was sure that if that were so I would do better to go the other way. This is the poem — the translation is exact, the original being unrhymed, and the punctuation is the poet’s —<br /><br /><br />Splashing waves<br />Rocking boat<br />Dipping gulls —<br />Dunes.<br /><br />Raging winds<br />Floating froth.<br />Flashing lightning<br />Moon!<br /><br />Fearful hearts<br />Morning grey —<br />Stormy nights<br />Faith!<br /><br />I read it, marvelled, and went the other way.