Overdim with no thought

But: yes-no,

                  I must

Obey. Condition of

 

A Captain: his Law allows no other

Law. I consent. My half-masted-mind

Will catch a gale-in-halves, but—

I'll arrive

                  at the "Line." I marked me

 

On page for profit. I

                              marked me (for

Profit) on the line. Starbuck.

 

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xxxSTARxxx	xxxBUCKxxx	xxxI'M NOTxxx
1.     any of many	1. orig. he-goat,	star-buzzard
stellar objects	male deer
		star-hawk
2.     esp. a fixed	2. a man
star		star-mouthed
	3. body of animal,
3.     a planet,	a carcasse	star-throat
constellation, re-
garded as	4. sl. a dollar	star-throated
influencing hu-	__
man affairs		star-back
__	1. (v.) to drench,
	to soak	star-drag
3.     radiating crack
or fracture	2. (v.) to leap verti-	star-drift
	cally, feet together,
	arching back	star-fashion
	like a deer
		star-flint
	3.  (v.) to beat,
	to butt
	__
	1.  obs. to play
	a game of chance

                                        

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Star|buck—1. a bright man

 2. a fiery influence risks in the ocean a snuffing out, that chance

 3. that fire that informs a body

 4. a planet's leaping out of orbit (i.e. Retrograde Mars)

 5. a soaked star, a drenched star

 6. a star that beats against—(what can a star beat against? . . .)

 7. a starring star, broken from (who's handling? . . .)

. . . o, darkness

 

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To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

 

More calm to myself—I am

A dumb thing, reverent so—. Clamp my tongue—

Batten it. My plumb-line

Needs no measuring of any depth

But my own. Call it out, now! Me:

 

I look deep down and do believe.