A Singer from the Sea

A Singer from the Sea by Amelia E. Barr is a reflection on human spirituality as well as an exploration of the lives of Cornish fishermen. Excerpt: "FROM Padstow Point to Lundy Race is one of the wildest and grandest portions of the Cornish coast, and on it there is always somewhere a tossing sea, a stiff breeze above, and a sucking tide below. Great cliffs hundreds of feet high guard it, and from the top of them the land rolls 2away in long ridges, brown and bare. These wild and rocky moors, full of pagan altars, stone crosses, and memorials of the Jew, the Phœnician, and the Cornu-British, are the land of our childhood's fairy-folk–the home of Blunderbore and of Jack the Giant Killer, and the far grander «Fable of Bellerus old, And the great vision of the Guarded Mount.»