The Pequod Meets The Rachel

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[ISHMAEL] And then some time went by Some days and nights elapsed [DAGGOO, spoken] Captain! A ship [FEDALLAH, spoken] Bad news. She brings bad news [CAPTAIN GARDINER] Halloa, Captain We are the whale ship Rachel Have ye seen a whaleboat adrift? [AHAB, spoken] Hast seen the white whale? [CAPTAIN GARDINER] Aye, yesterday But have ye seen a whaleboat adrift? [AHAB, spoken] Yesterday! Yesterday! Faith, I know thee-- Captain Gardiner from Nantucket! [CAPTAIN GARDINER, spoken] 'Tis I, Captain Ahab [AHAB, spoken] Tell me, was it Moby Dick? [CAPTAIN GARDINER] Aye, 'twas Moby Dick [AHAB, spoken] Moby Dick! Moby Dick! Where was he? Hast killed him? [CAPTAIN GARDINER] No, no harpoon has yet been forged that will ever do that [AHAB, spoken] Not yet forged-- Tempered in blood and lightning are these barbs, and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place where the white whale most feels his accursed life! Now, how was it? Spin the tale [CAPTAIN GARDINER] Captain, you must help us We lost a whaleboat chasing Moby Dick His white hump dragged them away Into the darkness And we searched, we gave them chase Lit the try-works as a beacon Every man stood lookout But the whaleboat was gone His white hump dragged them away Into the darkness Captain, you must help us Unite with our ship in the search If we sail some four miles apart On parallel lines We'll sweep a double horizon Captain Ahab [AHAB, spoken] No-- no, I won't do it-- the white whale-- we have no time! Mr. Starbuck, let us go! [CAPTAIN GARDINER] Captain. Captain! My boy! My boy! My little lad, but twelve years old Was among them he dragged away Captain, I know you, good Captain Do unto me as you would have me do to you For I know you have a boy Nestling safe at home, no but a child Let me charter your ship for eight-and-forty hours I will pay, gladly pay You must, no, you shall do this thing I will not go 'til you say aye to me [AHAB, spoken] Avast! Touch not a rope-yarn. No, Captain, I will not do that. He drowned with the rest of them last night, I heard their spirits. God bless ye, and may I forgive myself, but I must go [CAPTAIN GARDINER] No. Captain-- no! My boy! My boy! My boy! [AHAB, spoken] Mr. Starbuck, brace forward again, full sails [CAPTAIN GARDINER, spoken] No. He lives! He lives, Captain! My boy! [PIP, spoken] Captain? Is another lost like Pip? Captain? [AHAB, spoken] Cursed child-- weep so, and I will murder thee! Have a care, for Ahab is mad [ISHMAEL] Ahab and the Pequod turned away And the Rachel sailed on Weeping silver spray for her child Lost on the sea