Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ocean Fact: Algal blooms, Pfiesteria, toxic pollutants and contaminated shellfish are just some of the problems facing the United States' coastal areas.

I see the deep's untrampled floor
With green and purple sea-weeds strown;

I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown;

I sit upon the sands alone,
The lightning of the noontide ocean

Is flashing round me, and a tone
Arises from its measured motion;

How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion!

---Percy Bysshe Shelley--