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294 He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old—
 * his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced,
 * handsome,

They and his daughters loved him —all who saw him
 * loved him,

They did not love him by allowance—they loved him
 * with personal love;

He drank water only—the blood showed like scarlet
 * through the clear-brown skin of his face,

He was a frequent gunner and fisher—he sailed
 * his boat himself—he had a fine one presented
 * to him by a ship-joiner—he had fowling-pieces,
 * presented to him by men that loved him;

When he went with his five sons and many grandsons
 * to hunt or fish, you would pick him out
 * as the most beautiful and vigorous of the
 * gang.

You would wish long and long to be with him—you
 * would wish to sit by him in the boat, that you
 * and he might touch each other.

I have perceived that to be with those I like is
 * enough,

To stop in company with the rest at evening is
 * enough,

To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing,
 * laughing flesh is enough,

To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my
 * arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a
 * moment—what is this, then?

I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in
 * a sea.