Word: methought
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...night, methought about the midnight hour, A double darkness o'er me seem'd to lower; Pensive I lay, to know what God design'd, Sensations awful fill'd my boding mind! The poor unhappy slaves rose to my view, My former guilt, their wounds now bled anew; I heard their sighs, and saw their big round tears, Wept as they wept, and fear'd with all their fears; Methought I saw once more their natal shore, All stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing...
...Moby-Dick, Ishmael happens on an albatross that one of his shipmates snared with a hook and line. "Through its inexpressible, strange eyes," he soliloquizes, "methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God." Whatever those secrets are, most of us will have to learn about them secondhand. And maybe that's the appeal of the sea tale: it's the closest we will ever get to the riddle of the deep, a glimpse of a life--and, often, a death--we will never know. And who can blame us? There's nothing like a salty sea story...