The Whale's Flukes, a Spectacular Symbol of the Divine

In the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity. And kitten like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth. The peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature. Out of the bottomless profundities, the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. So in dreams have i seen majestic satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame baltic of hell. If and that of isaiah, the archangels, standing at the masthead of my ship during a