Not P but Moby-Dick (54)

[David Morris]

*“*
*Thou hast been where bellor diver never went; hast slept by many a
sailor's side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them
down.”*

The context proceeding the mother’s desires focuses on accessibility, or
the great privilege of the whale to access places no human has ever been.
So it seems to imply that the mothers would be willing to throw themselves
to the bottom of the ocean, if by doing so they could lay beside their dead
sons.


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 4:12 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it means the mothers would love to lay their sailors down in the
> bed where they ly with other sailors...
>