Not P but Moby-Dick (54)

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 05:21:03 UTC 2023


>From Chapter 70:

Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a
sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them
down.

What does "lay them down" mean here? I assume "them" refers to the sailors,
not the mothers themselves.


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