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Chapter 124. The Needle

Next morning, the not yet subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk

and striving in the peakwad's gurgling track, pushed her on like giant's palms outspread.

The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so that sky and air seemed vast outbelly in sales.

The whole world boomed before the wind.

Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place.

Whereas Bayonet rays moved on in stacks.

In blazinings as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens reigned over everything.

The sea was as accrucible of molten gold that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.

Long maintaining an enchanted silence, A-hab stood apart.

And every time the teetering ship loweringly pitched down her bousprit,

He turned eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead.

And when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind.

And saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake.

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