bounding main

A Nantucket sleigh-ride scene, with a shark providing the propulsion, hauling a boatload of howling oafs across the bounding main.

A Nantucket sleigh-ride scene, with a shark providing the propulsion, hauling a boatload of howling oafs across the bounding main.

The coast would oftener be his aim; and leaving Spilsby to the right, and the old twice-plague-stricken village of Partney, where the Somersby rivulet becomes a river, he would pass from “the high field on the bushless pike” to Miles-cross-hill, whence the panorama unfolds which he has depicted in Canto XI. of “In Memoriam”: Calm and still light on yon great plain, That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main.

Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main.

The facade may look as though it’s heading over the bounding main, but the Loden has anchored in Vancouver — and visitors are the better for it.