Famous Quotes | Adrift dissolving, bound for...
Adrift dissolving, bound for death;
Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one—
A lumbering lubbard loitering slow,
Impingers rue thee and go down,
Sounding thy precipice below,
Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls
Along thy dead indifference of walls.
- Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Berg (l. 31–37). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.
Categories: Death, Sea
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