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THE WHITE WHALE 
“Io ! Paean ! Io ! sing, 
To the Finny people’s king. 
Not a mightier whale than this 
In the vast Atlantic is; 
Not a fatter fish than he, 
Flounders round the Polar Sea.” 
Charles Lamb’s Triumph of the Whale. 
“In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales 
spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed; there — point- 
ing to the sea — is a green pasture where our children’s grandchildren will 
go for bread.” Obed Macy’s History of Nantuclcet. 
“I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form 
of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale’s jawbones.” 
Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales. 
“She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been 
killed by a whale in the Pacific Ocean, no less than forty years ago.” 
Ibid. 
“No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered Tom; “I saw his spout; he 
threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at. 
He’s a raal oil-butt, that fellow!” Cooper’s Pilot. 
“The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that 
whales had been introduced on the stage there.” 
Eckmann’s Conversations with Goethe. 
“My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?” I answered, “We have 
been stove by a whale.” 
Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship 
“Essex” of Nantucket , which was attacked 
and finally destroyed by a large Sperm 
Whale in the Pacific Ocean. By Owen 
Chace of Nantucket , first mate of said 
vessel. New York , 1821. 
“A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, 
The wind was piping free; 
Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale. 
