Sweet undulant mother

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I will go back to the great sweet mother

From Swinburne's poem "The Triumph of Time".

Misquoted 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