Psalm 55:6
In Chapter 7 of Anne’s House of Dreams, we find Anne and Gilbert chatting on their porch at Four Winds, at the close of their honeymoon:
“I understand now why some men must go to sea,” said Anne. “That desire which comes to us all at times–`to sail beyond the bourne of sunset’–must be very imperious when it is born in you. I don’t wonder Captain Jim ran away because of it. I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove `to fly away and be at rest,’ but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of a storm.”
“You’ll stay right here with me, Anne-girl,” said Gilbert lazily. “I won’t have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms.”
Psalm 55:6
King James Bible
So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove !
I would fly away and be at rest.
