Chapter 42
The blue sea,—the blue sky!—and God's sunshine over all! To this I woke, after a long period of unconsciousness, and found myself afloat on a wide ocean, fast bound to a wooden spar. So strongly knotted were my bonds that I could not stir either hand or foot, … and after one or two ineffectual struggles to move I gave up the attempt, and lay submissively resigned to my fate, face upturned, and gazing at the infinite azure depths above me, while the heaving breath of the sea rocked me gently to and fro like an infant in its mother's arms. Alone with God and Nature, I, a poor human wreck, drifted,—lost, yet found! Lost on this vast sea which soon should serve my body as a sepulchre, … but found, inasmuch as I was fully conscious of the existence and awakening of the Immortal Soul
