Which two lines in the poem help the reader determine the theme?

A Life on the Ocean Wave

by Epes Sargent


A life on the ocean wave,

A home on the rolling deep,

Where the scattered waters rave,

And the winds their revels keep!

5 Like an eagle caged, I pine

On this dull, unchanging shore:

Oh! give me the flashing brine,

The spray and the tempest's roar!


Once more on the deck I stand

10 Of my own swift-gliding craft:

Set sail! farewell to the land!

The gale follows fair abaft.

We shoot through the sparkling foam

Like an ocean-bird set free;—

15 Like the ocean-bird, our home

We'll find far out on the sea.


The land is no longer in view,

The clouds have begun to frown;

But with a stout vessel and crew,

20 We'll say, Let the storm come down!

And the song of our