There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently…

Herman Melville
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ✨ Herman Melville (2008). Moby-Dick, p.535, Velvet Element Books
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