A Terrible Coward

· 1909

_Plash_! directly after; but the sounds those two words express, multiplied and squared if you like, till the effect upon the senses is, on the first hearing, one of dread mingled with awe at the mightiness of the power of the sea. For this is not "how the waters come down at Lodore," but how they come in at Carn Du, a little fishing town on the Cornish coast.…

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