"From Land to Land"
in Harper's Bazaar (New York, NY, USA) (Jan 1951): (Page imagery not yet available)
- First extracted as The Mirror of the Sea: I. Landfalls and Departures in The Pall Mall Magazine (London, UK) (Jan 1905)
- Subsequently extracted as Landfalls and Departures in The Reader (New York, NY, USA) (Jan 1905)
- Collected as Landfalls and Departures in The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
- Subsequently extracted as Landfall and Departure in The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA, USA) (Jul 10, 1920)
- Subsequently serialized as Landfalls and Departures in Eigo Seinen (Tokyo, Japan) (Oct 1, 1924 — Dec 1, 1924)
View in Internet Archive BookReader (experimental). Caption to photo-illustration of passenger liner reads:
It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too,
your ship's routine, which I have seen soothe
-- at least for a time -- the most turbulent of spirits.
There is health in it, and peace,
and satisfaction of the accomplished round;
for each day of the ship's life seems to close a circle
within the wide ring of the sea horizon.
It borrows a certain dignity of sameness from the
majestic monotony of the sea.
He who loves the sea loves also the ship's routine.
-- Joseph Conrad
It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too,
your ship's routine, which I have seen soothe
-- at least for a time -- the most turbulent of spirits.
There is health in it, and peace,
and satisfaction of the accomplished round;
for each day of the ship's life seems to close a circle
within the wide ring of the sea horizon.
It borrows a certain dignity of sameness from the
majestic monotony of the sea.
He who loves the sea loves also the ship's routine.
-- Joseph Conrad