Words of Note

September 15, 1999

Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows ... I drive the sea!

Herman Melville, 19th-century American novelist

From 'Moby-Dick' (1851).

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