Sweet undulant mother

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  • sweet mother: From Swinburne's poem "The Triumph of Time": "I will go back to the 'great sweet mother."cMisquoted by Mulligan in Ulysses (pg 3) as "grey sweet mother.": "Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea."
  • undulant: wavelike