[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...
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“The great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.” This line was spoken by the character in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. According to the poem, he is a mariner who has witnessed an immense, supernatural phenomenon. He is at a loss for words to describe what he has seen. “The sun that rises in the east and sets in the west,” he says at one point, but then goes on to say, “It rises in the east and sets in the west.” The environment around him has changed, but not him. He still feels the same way about his life.

Source: Mobydick Or, The Whale

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