XXXI.

Into an embryo fish our Soul is thrown,

And in due time thrown out again, and grown

To such vastness, as if unmanacled

From Greece Morea were, and that, by some

Earthquake unrooted, loose Morea swam;

Or seas from Afric's body had severed

And torn the Hopeful promontory's head:

This fish would seem these, and, when all hopes fail,

A great ship overset, or without sail,

Hulling, might (when this was a whelp) be like this whale.

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