With the final book in The Ceruleans series on its way, you may be wondering about its title: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully. It’s an extract from two works by Romantic poets in the nineteenth century.
‘Madoc’ (1805) by Robert Southey (most famous for writing the original Goldilocks story).
Will ye believe
The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals
Sprang from the wave, like flashing light; took wing,
And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,
Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were they
To sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam,
Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye,
Their falling quarry: language cannot paint
Their splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen,
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,
In all its rich variety of shades,
Suffus’d with glowing gold.
‘Don Juan’ (1821) by Lord Byron (best known for his many love affairs and his poem ‘She Walks in Beauty’).
O! ‘darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,’
As some one somewhere sings about the sky…
The sea, the sky… blue…
The Ceruleans.