The sea has swallowed men who have spoken a thousand different languages

From A Sailor's Pay by Jack Cady in the anthology, Sea-Cursed, edited by T. Liam McDonald.

I like this combination of the speaking in sounds and languages.

The sea speaks with the sounds of thunder, or it is susurrous, or it hisses, or it murmurs. It is nearly as ancient as the earth. The sea has swallowed men who have spoken a thousand different languages: it has taken into its restless maw Persians, Phoenicians, Romans, Spaniards and Englishmen.