jonah

"The ribs and terrors in the wale, Arched over me a dismal gloom, While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom.
I saw the opening maw of hell, WIth endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell--Oh I was plunging to despair.
In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed His ear to my complaints-- No more the whale did me confine.
With speed he flow to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne;Awful, yet bright, as lightning shoneThe face of my Deliver God.
My songs forever shall recordThat terrible, that joyful hour;I give the glory to my God, His all the mercy and the power."

-Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Chapter IX, The Sermon
This is a hymn that the church in Moby-Dick sang before the sermon on Jonah was narrated.











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