Vagga , av Arthur C. Clarke och Gentry Lee, 1988
The waters of the emerald oceans begin to surge forward in tidal frenzy, now rapidly moving up the rocky cliffs on the western side and quickly submerging great chunks of land on the sloping side that runs to the eastern ocean. The concerted pull of all the moons produces a tide that will eventually cover the isthmus completely, uniting the two oceans. As the waters draw ever closer together, the music from the thousand singing serpents swells to magnificence... It is also a plaintive sound of longing and anticipation, the universal cry of long-suppressed desire on the verge of being satisfied.