id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-009 chapter-009 .txt text/plain 953 73 83 silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky Yes, there is death in this business of whaling--a Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks my body is but the lees And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat ./cache/chapter-009.txt ./txt/chapter-009.txt