Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!-that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again. Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.
( Herman Melville )
[ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale ]
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