Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid… — Herman Melville
Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851
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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.
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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.