Pierre de Marbeuf
- Et la mer et l'amour
Sea and love both share a bitter bite The sea seizes and love seizes Love scalds us and the sea scalds us For neither are free from tempest might Those who fear the waters should stay within the shore's sight those who fear the pain that love procures should shun the flames when love endures And both shall be safe from found and blight For if water could quench loves dying embers Your love that burns and pains and severs I would douse this fire with the sea of all my tears.
H. P. Lovecraft
- The Shadow over Innsmouth
During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting-under suitable precautions-of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring souls let this occurrence pass.
