I say. White-Jacket. d•ye mind me? there never was a Very yet
who spent all his life inland. snuff Of the sea, my boy, is and
having been once out Of sight Of land, has been the making Of many a true
poet and the blasting of many pretenders; for, see. there no gammon
about the ocean: it knocks the false keel right off a prQertderÄbows; it tells
him just he is, and makes him feel it, too. sailoi•ssliie, is the
thing to bring us mortals out. What does the blessed Bible'"? •t it say
that we main-tormen alone see the marvellous sights and ? Don-t
deny the blessed Bible. now! don•t do it! How it
holding on to a shroud; "but it only proves
the place to cradle genius! Heave and fall. old
ks up her& y!"
ayingAhQ sea is
-Hem i Melville
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