TAHITAN SAILOR [Reclining on a mat]Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls! -- the Heeva Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn and wilted quite. Ah me! -- not thou nor I can bear the change! How then, if so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? -- The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Moby Dick - pg. 252
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