The Finding of the Graiken
- THE FINDING OF THE GRAIKEN - A black ink and black color pencil on AN 11 x 14 size coquille board. This story illustration appears in the book, "OUT OF THE STORM" by William Hope Hodgson, published by Grant in 1975.
I've read some outstanding sea stories about old sailing ships trapped in the weeds of the dreaded Sargasso sea and the awful fate that befell the sailors and passengers. Hodgson wrote the best of them.
But no matter the terrible dangers of sea-faring, there were always men who could not resist the challenge, the sea has lured men to some of their greatest adventures. That spirit is expessed in this poem;
"I must go down to the sea again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship,
And a star to steer her by."
- John Masefield
Someday, in the far future, an astronaut will be buried with those words on his gravestone.
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